Word: surmountable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might call a hopelessly optimistic nation. No evil day can possibly dawn upon us; we are too clever. Secretary Hoover may say, "Increasing population will force the United States to advance in scientific discovery or to lower its standard of living." No matter. We will meet all obstacles and surmount them. Knibbs and Pearl, speaking as sociologists, may point out that the pitifully short lives full of hunger and misery endured by the peoples of China and India, and the economic disturbances of Western Europe, are due in large measure to high population density. What of it! It can never...
...undergraduates, under the departmental system as it now exists, he cannot be advanced until some other university recognizes his strength and offers him assurance of a permanent job. There are, to be sure, a few exceptions in which Yale has acted in time to save her teachers. We must surmount this obstacle...
...Tiger sextet is also strong and should prove an obstacle that the Elis will find difficult to surmount. Although the Nassau men have a comparatively unimpressive record the team has been brilliant at times especially in defeating the St. Nicholas Club team. However, the Orange and Black fell before the Williams six which was defeated by Yale in three contests. The Princeton team's development has been slow, but critics expect them to offer stiff opposition to Yale's stickmen...
Charles Beecher Warren, who, with John Barton Payne, is representing the United States, reports that the conference often assembles morning, noon and night. According to Mr. Warren, there is only one more "hurdle" to surmount, after which the conference will...
...else. In fact, the book might be called "Memories of Mountains", for there is not one essay which, sooner or later, does not describe the peculiarities of the country's mountain ranges. At times their purple majesty awed him, but generally craggy heights and shining glaciers were obstacles to surmount, in record time, if possible. I strongly suspect that Suvaroff's Alpine Campaign, which he tells of in an essay by that name, interested him mainly because it took place in the most beautiful part of Helvetia, and because he admired the courage of those Russian lowlanders who bravely followed...