Word: facing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...President emphasized that "in its three hundred year existence Harvard has witnessed many drastic moments in the history of western culture, but the present college year opens under a shadow of a threat never before present. War is not the worst possiblity we face; the worst is the complete triumph of totalitarianism, and at this moment it is sufficiently real to warrant every man's most earnest consideration...
...President Conant sees that the greatest difficulty Harvard must face is to reconcile itself to the relatively passive part it must play in such times as these. "Only a few will be called up to give their entire time and energy to our vast program of rearmament. Consequently, many will feel thwarted and long for more active participation...
...face of the overwhelming demand for jobs among the student body all these objections seem trivial. For the Student Employment Office estimates that from fifty to one hundred students are annually forced to leave College because of inability to meet expenses. And last year almost five hundred men who applied for T. S. E. jobs had to be turned down...
...straightened out when Hap and Johnny save a burning oil well by slam-bang courage. As in countless previous pictures, Pat O'Brien loses his girl in the end to the ne'er-do-well he has reformed, shrugs his rounding shoulders, once again turns his face to buffeting fate...
...liberal curriculum. As a result, "our sons are cold to the agonies of the great tradition to which our culture belongs, indifferent to the fate of British democracy, though our national fate is inseparable from it, and are ready to call a policy which will leave our democracy to face totalitarian ruthlessness alone and isolated, a policy or 'realism...