Word: coping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...themselves The Nudist Theatre Guild recruited a few professional actors and put on a half-clothed version of the old stock company chestnut, retitled The Girl from Childs in 1950. Beforehand the director had announced: "Serious [i. e., stark naked] presentation is not possible at present. We have to cope with the law. The cast will wear as little as possible." The pressagent said: "As was the case when Columbus spoke of a new route to India, tremendous obstacles have been placed in the way of the new enterprise. . . . protests. . . . boycott. . . . We have refused to be intimidated." Hefty Heroine Theodora...
...advice to be found is in the department itself, where the chairman and senior tutor act in the capacity of "contact men." However, if all students who should consult them for one reason or another, did so, the chairmen and senior tutors would have little time left to cope with their many other important duties...
...Miss Oliver among its occupants, one of the other passengers is found to have died on route. Miss Oliver, refusing to accept heart failure as an explanation, sets out to discover which one of her fellow-passengers is guilty of the murder. As a lady-detective, she has to cope with a disappearing body, a poison flask, poison cigarettes, and James Gleason, a New York cop who is her partner in detection...
...Student Council report states that the plan "is designed to help Freshmen come into closer contact with the Houses and, like the inter-House meal regulations, to permit greater intercourse among the undergraduate body. In addition it is hoped that this plan will help Freshmen to cope more intelligently with the problem of selecting a House for their remaining three years in college. Although any plan of this nature has its limitations, it seems the only possible method at present to stimulate the Freshmen to any spirit of curiosity or investigation into the facilities of the House Plan...
...Hayashi cried: "The Army has no intention of stopping now in Manchukuo!" Pounding with his large fist, Navy Minister Osumi boomed: "We have no intention of embarking on a naval race, but if negotiations fail we have a policy! . . The whole Japanese nation must make up its mind to cope with the situation, even if we are reduced to eating rice gruel...