Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very difficult to decide upon a new uniform, however, since all-Crimson outfits would scarcely be suitable. If khaki were to be used, the Harvard organization would be trespassing on military grounds. Tonight the musicians will seek a solution for their problem...
Yammering among educational, athletic and apostolic authorities as to whether the football player shall be allowed to play football, a question that enjoys a peculiar frightfulness just after the season, has just had a particularly obnoxious renascence. With the open season a month over, the familiar problem has pushed up the cover of the ashcan, straightened its necktie, shined its shoes on its trouser legs, and strode boldly into the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The Carnegie Foundation has, by means of intelligence tests (and what a world of blasted hopes and teary smiles is in those...
...interesting to note in relation to the problem of meting out justice to an offender, and in connection with the sentiment so easily aroused by any significant electrocution, that the banks of Texas have found it effective and expedient to put a premium on summary punishment for bank robbers. Five thousand dollars for a dead bank robber, but not a cent for a live one! The arrangement in Texas seems effective and popular, but distinctly pragmatical...
...things to emphasize in the navel disarmament problem is that the conflict is not merely Anglo-American, as most people suppose, but that it concerns the entire world...
...remark, Rennie Smith, a British Labor member of Parliament and also Directing Secretary of the National Council for Prevention of War, said in an interview yesterday that Great Britain had already begun to disarm, and that it would not be directly concerned with America's way of handling the problem...