Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flat and fertile Ontario and along the fish-flanked coast of Nova Scotia, voters were confronted with liquorish problems last week. Ontario's problem was whether or not to retain the Conservative Government of Premier George Howard Ferguson and in particular his beloved L. C. A. (Liquor Control Act) under which government liquor stores dole out their wares to the relief of the citizenry, to an annual profit of some $20,000,000 for the Provincial Treasury. Canadian Drys, Ontario Liberals and Progressives cried out against "Conservative wetness and corruption." Premier Ferguson pleaded chiefly, and successfully...
...source of great satisfaction to feel that . . . this admittedly difficult problem has been removed from the field of party politics...
...business. Because he is patient and urban, he is the Morgan diplomat. In more subtle ways, Mr. Lament can be described as a tangible person. Tell him a joke and he will laugh. Offer him an idea and he will develop it. Put him in the middle of a problem and he will begin to solve it. The doors of his mind swing easily ajar. That is why he left Exeter (1888) and Harvard (1892), to become a good reporter (and later, a good copy reader) on the New York Tribune. And why in 1902, he could bring order...
Where to go when one's college dormitory is padlocked? This is the poignant problem which confronts eighty students at the University of Michigan, thanks to an untimely raid by the local authorities, in the course of which a quantity of spirituous liquors were found hidden in the attic of the dormitory...
...game away from Cambridge it seems appropriate to bring before the eyes of the public the admirable arrangements made by at least one telegraph company for vicarious cheering. Experts of the sort who made "don't write, telegraph" famous have brought forward their contribution to the overemphasis problem in the form of ten suggested pep messages to be delivered to the boys a few minutes before the game. At present writing no statistics are available as to the relative number of telegrams delivered to winning and to losing teams during the past season, but if there is a possibility...