Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...danger in these claims lies in the susceptibility of many elements of the American public, much less a trained legal mind, toward underrating the complexities of the Chinese dilemma. If Professor Pound states that Chiang Kai-shek is achieving reconversion, that the Communist question is overrated, and that the Kuomintang government is deserving of greater American support, he is bound to influence great segments of American thought, even if he does speak with the limited knowledge that he admits. The extremely narrow limits of his view, and the dangers inherent in it can be seen in the presence of General...
King v. Communism. The result in Greece: a decisive majority (70%) for the return of King George. An Athens lawyer who voted for the King summed up the dilemma of many Greeks: "I feel I have betrayed everything I believed in for the past 33 years. But I believe bringing the King back may help stem Communism in Greece, so I voted...
Garland, for the uninitiate who may not remember him, is a towering blond out of Buzzards Bay who saw considerable action in '42, is best recalled as a punter whose booming spirals frequently kept the squad out of trouble, a dilemma it experienced all too often in that last "formal" campaign. Whether Flynn will be called upon to handle the booting chores this fall, when the highly-touted Ralph Petrillo will be available, remains another of the little mystcries that will be solved when the season opens, but the knowledge that Flynn's right toe is ready for duty...
Pathetic Paradox. It is typical of the dilemma of this civilization that masses of men humbly accept the fact of Einstein's genius, but only a handful understand in what it consists. They have heard that, in his Special and his General Theories of Relativity, Einstein finally explained the form and the nature of the physical universe and the laws governing it. They cannot understand his explanation. To a small elite of mathematicians and physicists, the score of equations in which Einstein embodied his picture of the universe and its functioning are as concrete as a kitchen table...
Einstein's solution of this dilemma was characteristically bold. "Light," he said, "is both corpuscles and waves." A light ray is a shower of energy particles called "photons" whose energy increases with the wave frequency of the light...