Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...problem of today is to utilize modern inventions in the American Navy. "Of course the personnel takes an important part in this process," the Secretary remarked, and to illustrate his point he remarked on the importance of the work of a mechanic, who, by doing a poor riveting job, allows oil to leak from a submarine. Thus a slick is made on the surface, and the submersible ship is betrayed to her enemy...
...Cambridge some time in April for its contest, to be followed the next month by the Philipine team. The exact dates will be announced later. The question for neither of the debates has as yet been definitely decided, but it is expected that the questions will deal with the problem of international relations...
...associates are attacking a disease (it may be a collection of diseases) that makes every working man lose 1.4 days of his working year and every woman 2.1 days of hers. Four out of ten men get bad colds each year; seven out of ten women get them. The problem is serious. But with $195,000 and with other sums forthcoming if needed, it is certain to be solved. Money can provide support, equipment and leisure...
...vital problem which the taxpayers of Massachusetts might well face frankly, but which they will probably prefer to dodge, is set forth effectively by Edith Hamilton MacFadden of Cambridge in her new book, "The Next Question." The subject with which she deals is tax-exemption, which is, of course, just another form of taxation for those whose property is not exempt. She points out that tax-exempt property is rapidly increasing. Its total in Massachusetts up to and including 1925 is $1,188,-768,668, and it is increasing at the rate of $60,000,000 a year. The list...
SHOULD true love or the sense of duty evoked through compassion and pity determine the all too-important decision in one's life, that of marriage? This is the question upon which the theme of "Conflict" is based, and in it Mrs. Prouty has evolved a psychological problem, the solution of which she has presented too insufficiently and inconclusively; in fact, she has given no solution at all. That is left to the reader. That the girl loved through sympathy and later regretted is not, however, left uncertain. Around this lies the theme of the story-a swift moving story...