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Word: problem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when his mother tells him the story of her extra-marital spasm, sends away the lover and insists on honor for his son's sake. His wife refuses to adopt this course; for so doing, her mother-in-law kills her. The thoughtful content of this problem melodrama is not, obviously, of great value; but the actors use their bellows loudly and they make the play exciting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 30, 1928 | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...sulphur fumes. He dubbed the domestic chimney more dangerous than the factory smoke stack. The inadequate supply of anthracite has been the argument for burning bituminous coal, but bituminous coal can now be perfectly converted into gas and coke which do not smoke. After 25 years research on this problem at the University of Illinois, Professor Parr propagandizes for their proper place in the home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atoms, Drugs, Wines | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...name "Toc H" has an interesting and rather odd origin. During the War, when it was necessary to signal the name "Talbot", it was found difficult to make it or "Tal" understood "Toc", which has a more definite and sharp sound, was used as the solution of the problem The name has remained, and is that by which the society is known the world over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "TOC H" CHAPLAIN WILL SPEAK IN PEABODY HALL | 4/26/1928 | See Source »

...Edgell has found time to set forth, more fully and in permanent form, his knowledge and opinions on this subject. With America at present going through an era of extreme self-consciousness, with the country never before so financially able to enter the field of art, and with a problem almost unique to be solved in its building, no book could be of more timely interest...

Author: By V. O. Jones ., | Title: A Trio of Harvard Books | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...roller convention", seems to have won a great victory. The contract for supplying the members' pins was cancelled by a unanimous vote, the former holder of the contract having apparently been identified with the "Insurgents." It is obvious that such drastic treatment must get results, and with the delicate problem of members pins out of the way, the situation, whatever it is, certain to clear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUCH ADO | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

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