Word: plight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...land with their tents, brought bell-ringers, acrobats and inspirational lecturers to brighten small-town summers. But Chautauqua Institution, though popularly confused with its peripatetic namesakes, has never had any connection with them. Last week its President Arthur Eugene Bestor was sure that Depression alone is responsible for its plight...
...distant future, in which all exploitation shall have ceased and the universal brotherhood of man shall have been accomplished. In the course of this discussion Mr. Fruchs finds occasion to inveigh against such specific evils as the over-emphasis of athletics, the philosophies of Plato and Nietzsche, the plight of the Nottingham weavers at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and the place of women in modern society...
...taking it. She went to the vice president who handled the estate. Said he: "The question is, Mrs. Busby, what will you do to help the estate?" Mrs. Busby was willing to help to the extent of taking only $600 a month. But the more she thought about her plight the madder she got. As soon as she sued the bank cut off the $600 allowance...
...negro, dare to open their gates to him. Regardless of what constitutes ideal justice, any attempt at mixing the races in so crucial a concern as education would be certain to arouse a resentment both bitter and dangerous. Even if the colored student were tolerated by the whites, his plight would be made unbearable by social barriers erected around him. His theoretical right to learn, like his theoretical right to vote, avail him nothing...
...greatest advantage come to the greatest number of citizens from their government. Many a shrewd, honest and successful Manhattanite maintains close Tammany connections. Unanimously, this Tammany type deplores the bad management which has brought the 128-year-old Hall into the shadow of its fifth reformation. This sorry plight, they claim, is due to the unfortunate personality and training of John Francis Curry. When Curry was a young ward heeler on the West Side he worked for a telegraph company instead of tending bar, as did most incipient Tammany officials. Lacking that broadening experience, he was suddenly shoved into...