Word: perplexity
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...Harvard University but by the Aeolian-Skinner Company which built it. And the Friends of the Bach Organ, an enthusiastic group of patrons, continues struggling to raise the sum that Aeolian-Skinner demands for it. As to why the University has done nothing about purchasing the organ-that should perplex no one. The Corporation just isn't interested. It will barter its birthright to acquire a new scientific instrument, or some rare species of flora for the Arnold Arboretum, but when it comes to seeing the value of a thing like the Bach Organ, which reaches hundreds of people...
...Graduate School of Education, two representative bodies of teachers will recapitulate the year's work, will listen to the counsel of some of the most eminent men in academic circles, and then will marshal their knowledge for an assault on those baffling problems which are constantly arising to perplex teachers...
...Greatest Gamble (RKO) is a picture to perplex the Legion of Decency. Scrupulously clean in the matter of major morals, it advertises such minor vices as breaking jail, roulette and spilling water on the table cloth. Philip Eden (Richard Dix), hero of His Greatest Gamble, is, he says, a "half-mad cavalier who lights his cigaret on the stars and throws the stars away." By way of corroboration. he kidnaps his 10-year-old daughter from his estranged wife (Erin O'Brien-Moore); whisks her along the coast of France on a 30-day inspection of gambling casinos; ties...
...debts and reparations, You're a blight on all the nations, You embitter their relations, You're the chief of all causations Of their woes and tribulations, Of the problems that perplex them, Of the ills that grieve and vex them, Of the burdens that oppress them, And the sufferings that distress them, The anxieties that fret them, And the dangers that beset them...
...Germany is going to lead the procession in a general revival of busi ness throughout the world and it will not be long before its ... indefatigable industry will make the whole nation vibrate with prosperity. . . . The competition of Germany in the markets of the world is going to sorely perplex creditor nations. . . . Germany's rejuvenation ... an interesting chapter in the history of economic endeavor. Peace has its victories no less renowned than...