Word: facing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years. His fists clenched, the half-blind, old oil millionaire last week stood up for sentencing in a Denver courtroom. The man who fled to France in 1924 to avoid questioning in the Teapot Dome oil scandal had voluntarily flown home seven weeks before to face perjury charges on his income tax (TIME, Oct. 3). The court agreed with the U.S. attorney that the evidence was perhaps too weak to support the charges, agreed too with a doctor's report that "any substantial period of confinement" would cause Henry Blackmer's death...
...Republicans, of course, face a far worse problem. Mr. Dulles didn't have much to say in his campaign, and what he did say was managed at least as badly as Dewey's fiasco last year. The GOP will have to come up with a new program and new managers if it hopes to get back into power at all. It will have to stop harping on the welfare state, which is evidently a much overrated bugaboo. It will have to turn up some candidates whose virtues extend farther than smooth, untroubled faces and innocuous minds...
This University, as well as most other American universities, is over-producing scholars. According to Provost Buck, the time is not far off when higher education will have all the teachers it needs, and when unemployment will face Ph.D.'s. Some categories of degree-holders physicists, for instance won't feel the pinch, but others the social scientists will...
...face it. Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates are not turning out Great Literature. The undergraduate anywhere whose literary creations can stand successfully in the publishing market, or find an audience in the public of high or low brow, is a rare and fortunate fellow indeed...
...School for Young Lawyers which today opens its second annual conference is a Law School Forum idea for acquainting law students in Cambridge and surrounding cities with the problems they will face after entering local practice...