Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fate of her lost lover's mistress, who has forgotten herself so far as to shoot the lover. Inasmuch as the jurywoman herself has, in the prologue, attempted unsuccessfully to eradicate the identical individual in much the same manner she finds herself, as the saying goes, in a dilemma. Her solution involves the detonation of a vast amount of emotional cordite...
...native daughter of the curious antiques who make their living from the antique curiosities. His parents object because nobody in Philadelphia has ever heard of the Tweedles; and her parents object, even more strongly, because no one in Maine has ever heard of the Castleburys. The solution of this dilemma seems tenuous to the point of ineptitude?yet still surprisingly diverting...
...crops. Economic conditions in Hungary are good, but capital is of vital importance. No foreign power will lend without control; the Little Entente is in a position to block all loans, unless it is given control; the Hungarians don't want Little Entente control, they want money. The dilemma is unescapable. Only the gradual weakening of the Little Entente, prophesied at Budapest, can afford the Magyars consolation...
...affected. But France and Italy found in this interpretation an encroachment upon their wine-ration law. The captain of a French or Itallan ship was faced with the necessity of breaking his country's law or of being arrested by American prohibition officers. Fortunately Secretary Mellon has solved the dilemma in a common-sense manner by allowing the ship doctor to determine how large a supply of medicinal liquor he may need...
...Department of Physical Education, it is not too much to say that it is loaded down with more than it can handle. Limit its duties to its own specific field, place the administration of Hemenway in the hands of the Athletic Association, and both horns of the dilemma will be removed at once...