Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Federal Farm Loan Bureau. In his inconspicuous office at Washington, he has received malcontents, and their political spokesmen, during three Administrations. His record of financial diplomacy and impartial advice has won him the confidence of all but professional farm agitators. In his opinion, there would have been no Farm Problem this year but for the election. McNary-Haugenites could not, in his belief, have hoped to fix "fairer" prices than the prices currently obtaining. None knows better than Banker Meyer the disasters farmers have faced, but he regards farmers who had not recovered from post-War depression as "the inevitable...
...competition, ensuring Harvard of the best plans obtainable in the United States. And the subject is also ready to hand--the new memorial chapel. First "architects' drawings" of this structure caused a storm of protest and ridicule. The site of the new chapel presents in itself a difficult architectural problem, and architects from all over the country should be given their chance to solve...
...bodies of the murdered in the Rue Morgue are long dust, but the problem of crime and its prevention lives on. Three contributions to criminology have appeared within the fortnight, important in that they light up the direction of progress, curious in that they show the President of the United States flouting the figures of his nation's experts...
...thus appropriate to a democratic state, they have little value. They ignore scores of shamefully protracted trials, and they give the abstract lie to scores of meaningful psychological statistics. Harry Elmer Barnes may go on believing that the last twenty-five years have given man more knowledge of this problem than the preceding two thousand. The Thomas Mott Oshornes of America may yet succeed in making the prison punitive rather than corrective. But as long as men of Mr. Coolidge's eminence continue to find the problem inconsiderable at its source, the armored skins of complacent legislators can never...
...difficult not to read into the Corporation's decision more significance than that due the simple solution of an administrative problem. In the eternal choice between brawn and brain as the dominant force in American universities. Harvard has gone on record that she will not be stampeded into the current craze for bigger and better stadia. In assuming the position she has done more than this; she has set a definite limit to the advance of one of two forces. This step may or may not have far-reaching results, but at least it has put the University...