Word: cope
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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LONDON--Winston Churchill told the House of Commons today that Great Britain must be prepared to cope with a fleet of 100 German U-boats in a "long and unrelenting struggle" on the high seas to protect British merchant shipping...
...country at large to shake off the spell of the Rough Rider; but Pringle's evidence makes it clear that in certain essential particulars Roosevelt left his friend to face the music. T. R.'s liberalism had somehow avoided the high tariff; Taft had to cope with that. T. R. had swung the big stick against the trusts; Taft had to make it connect. T. R. had been supple enough to play politics with a conservative Congress without seeming to do so; Taft had to temper Uncle Joe Cannon and was promptly accused of bowing...
Bock hopes that the new Freshman Tutorial Board instituted this year will be effective in aiding Freshmen to cope with inexperience in note-taking and in meeting the complicated problems of college life. He heartily endorses the CRIMSON's campaign for ridding Harvard Square of the illegitimate tutoring schools...
...task of checking the traditional Indian hilarity is left in the hands of police veterans; but the task of checking the Big Green gridiron forces is placed on a very inexperienced Harlow Varsity, most of whom have never been called upon to cope with the Dartmouth horde...
...choice of John Sly as lecturer on local government is any criterion, the Department seems to plan to make temporary appointments until faculty instructors are ready to take over the various vacated fields. Such a solution can only be frowned upon. Special lecturers, while they may cope with the teaching problem, can never be adequate tutors; they are simply not familiar enough with the lay of the land...