Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first problem which confronts the law student on his arrival in Cambridge is that of finding a place in which to live. The Society co-operates with the Information Bureau run by the Phillips Brooks House Association in giving advice to first year...
French intelligence solved the problem by an announcement that a "midnight storm" had washed away a section of the one comfortable motor road connecting the French resorts with San Remo. Next day French artisans were busy repairing the stretch of road with such vigor that for long it will be impassible. Italians wrathfully and truthfully declared that there had been no storm. High play at San Remo fell, at least temporarily...
...astronomer, Dr. Arrhenius took up the problem, calculated the average temperature on Venus, found it to be the temperature these bacteria like best. Other conditions being suitable this must be their Fatherland. But how did they come to earth...
...problem of the reorganization of the equipment department has been studied from every angle, and it is after months of effort, work that has been constant since early last fall, that Gamache and his assistants have devolved the plan...
Financial press agents fought doughtily all week, as they did less conspicuously for three preceding weeks, over a national railway problem, essentially political, secondarily financial. The problem is whether there are to be four or five dominant trunk-lines westward from New York. The fifth, if at all, would be organized and run by Leonor Fresnel Loree, who now controls the Delaware & Hudson. Mr. Loree, grizzly-bear of railroads, Harriman's successor in talent, conferred for nearly three hours. His conferees represented four trunk-line adversaries: the Pennsylvania, the New York Central, the Baltimore & Ohio and the Van Sweringen...