Word: thorniest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thorniest problem that the Law School faces is the question of admissions. It is only since the War that the number of applicants has become such as to make the problem acute. There are two methods of dealing with a large number of candidates for admission. The first, used by Harvard, has been to admit every college graduate with a reasonable record, and then at the end of the first year eliminate those who are obviously not qualified to continue...
...thorniest problem of all must wait for solution until after the plebiscite. From 1871 until 1914, when both the Saar and Alsace-Lorraine were German, an agreement was reached between the two districts as to the joint consumption of coal and iron, the respective product of each. Neither district, Mr. Florinsky feels, could have flourished without the cooperation of the other, which is to his mind proved by the fact that it was not long after the World War that the old agreement was revived, despite France's receiving Alsace-Lorraine, and the Saar's being controlled by the League...
...justify. It should be borne in mind, that despite the success of the League in at least contributing towards a moderately peaceful Saar plebiscite, and in the peaceful settlement of the threatened war between Jugoslavia and Hungary--despite these encouraging signs, it would be unwise to forget that the thorniest problems remain unsolved...
President Hoover last week had back on his hands one of the oldest and thorniest disputes between the Army and Navy. The question: where, in coast defense, does naval aviation stop and military aviation begin? It was the kind of controversy that President Hoover, as commander-in-chief of both services, could not refer to an expert commission for settlement because all the experts? officers of the Army and Navy?were already professionally prejudiced...