Word: surmountable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your July 21 "Sisu" was superbly done. I have read few articles that have presented with such excellency the spirit of the Finnish people and the obstacles they have had to surmount because they live under the shadow of the historical Russian bully . . . What all of us, from the Thuringian Forest to Sheboygan, must realize is that to survive we need, along with armor, A-bombs and valuta, sisu...
...that, unless one assumes that the nation has been grossly and consistently hoodwinked for the last 316 years, there must be something in the behavior of Harvard men, beyond their skill at Harvardmanship, that has enabled them to surmount scorn and suspicion and make a go of things. And since each new issue of graduates is in a sense living off the reputations of its predecessors, there is plainly a responsibility for each class to make things easier for the ones still to come...
...Postwar immigration and a steady rise in population have added a million workers to the Canadian labor force in the past decade. And the future looked sound. Said Trade Minister Howe: "Canada is in good shape, well able to take advantage of the opportunities that lie ahead, and to surmount any obstacles that may appear...
...foremost problem that interviewers had to surmount was the scope and method of the interview itself. This was solved by giving four separate interviews to allow leeway for personal opinions, bias, and other psychological intrusions...