Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Moreover, there is an undercurrent of what is very evidently serious thought on Mr. Dawson's part. The dilemma of the young woman, innocently led into the traps of modern Society, is clearly preying on his mind. The world is a dangerous place for a girl, he reflects. The things that happened to Joyce might happen to almost anyone...
President Ebert, unable to dissolve the Reichstag and hold an election owing to the disturbed condition of the country, found himself in a dilemma. He offered the vacant Chancellorship in turn to Herr von Kardorff, Dr. Hergt and Dr. Heinrich F. Albert; all refused. Finally, the President wrote to Dr. Albert: "It having become obviously impossible at this time to form a Government on the basis of a parliamentary majority, I must ask you to override the scruples and hesitation which you previously expressed to me and to form a Cabinet...
...superiority of mind over matter, or of matter over mind, has proceeded, but without a conclusive decision. The place of psychology in business is undoubted; whether it can prevail against more concrete and material facts, and if so, how long, remain debatable propositions. Yet this is the dilemma faced today by the student of economic and business trends, when he attempts to foresee conditions as they will be in 1924. Practically all the facts pointed a month ago to continued deflation. Suddenly, a new psychology of confidence invaded the stock market, and from there extended to mercan tile and industrial...
...abolished itself. Nevertheless such a rule has been proposed, in the past and is sure to be proposed again in the future, if the difficulty of the sixty per cent regulation is not overcome. The Sophomore class has led the way it seeking an escape from the dilemma. "Nothing succeeds like success" says Dumas, and certainly if the Class of 1926 escapes its bonds, it is not likely that the Class of 1925, with its experience of the past two years, will long hesitate...
...substitute quarterback and then called for a semi-trick play, as having something to do with this general discussion of football ethics and coaching from the side-lines. This week the newspapers have been press-agenting the Dartmouth game as a battle between coaches, partly resulting from the quarterback dilemma at Harvard...