Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leading fall pastime, the remaining organized sports of the University as well as the facilities for individual exercise, would incure a loss of some $320,000; ergo, the most valid raison d'etre for intercollegiate football in its present form. Regardless of all the other merits of the problem, the money making potentiality of football, necessary as it is in the absence of any other means of supporting athletic exercises, is sufficient to swing the scales in its favor. It is the ultimate argument for bigger stadia, better athletes, and more publicity...
...sovereignty of the other nations, it is not unnatural that interest here should center on the Havana Conference in the hope that future relations may be put on a substantial basis that will leave no room for conscientious doubts. President Machado's determination to rigorously exclude the Nicaraguan problem from the program, and President Coolidge's refusal to be concrete, do not augur well for such a conclusion. Certain Latin delegates, however, have expressed themselves vehemently on the subject in published interviews. It can be hoped that the frankness with which they state their desires, and the willingness...
...when the weaker sex so universally expresses admiration of the "cave man" while at the same time upholding that great American slogan, "It's off, because it's out," the problem is an alarming one. The question as to whether the tea-sipping students of Radcliffe, Sargent, and Miss Leslie's should abandon, as they threaten to do, the debated territory of the fashionable tea shoppe to their enemies, the hairy-legged racquetmen, offers possibilities of stone throwing. The female crusader against legs laments a lack of modesty; and the male defendant retorts that "people who wear sheer hose should...
...learn from it the method of its easy flight. At London last week Capt. Victor Dibovsky-43, aviator since 1908, inventor of gears to permit the firing of bullets through the revolving propellers of airplanes, winner of a British prize for inventiveness-declared that he had solved the problem. The secret lay in a depression of the albatross's back, a dip that allowed the bird to utilize the force of head-winds into which it might be flying. And he had designed, although he had not yet built, a machine for humans to fly albatross-wise. His machine...
Asked what he considered possible remedies for the present much-bruited "crime wave", he replied. "The fundamental problem lies in the attitude of the public, the newspapers, and state legislatures. After a vicious and cruel underworld character, like Remus, kills his wife brutally and in cold blood, the man in the street says, 'she got what she deserves...