Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like the chicken-or-the-egg dilemma, a question that has long puzzled medical men is: Where originates the impulse that makes the heart beat? Some have contended that the heart nerves originate the impulse; others, that it begins in the muscle of the heart. Last week 22 authorities, 150 clinicians and 1,800 physicians attending the New York Academy of Medicine's graduate fortnight on the heart saw a microscopic motion picture of a first heart beat and considered the problem settled...
Having taken testimony on and deliberated for four months over Ex Parte 103, the petition of all Class 1 railroads for a blanket freight rate increase of 15%, Chairman Ezra Brainerd Jr. of the Interstate Commerce Commission and his ten colleagues last week handed down a dilemma. Even before they were made public the commission's long-awaited findings caused confusion. Someone got a look at the first page of the report, was led to believe the commission had granted, at least in part, what the roads had asked for. A telephone call from Washington sent rail shares bounding...
...Well, sir," said Joe Jefferson, "in this dilemma is there no other church to which you can direct me, from which my friend can be buried...
Life is a perpetual dilemma for the turtle. The heads apparently do not realize, as do joined human twins, that they have a common destiny. The two pair of front feet always attempt to crawl in divergent directions...
...popular that for a few months the lobbies of Manhattan's theatres were infested with actors carrying concealed weapons and even the balconies resembled shooting galleries. In the cinema, obviously, no such presentation of The Spider was possible but it remains an exciting, gruesome and momentarily plausible dilemma, unfit for the hysterically inclined. In the cast, Edmund Lowe is the magician, Lois Moran the heroine, El Brendel a simple-minded spectator who provides comic relief by stealing a hat, asking stupid questions in a thick Swedish accent...