Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...situation that may be labelled critical, when a number of men are denied the privilege of taking exercise at least every other day. During the Reading Period, when lengthened hours of study have drawn upon the other activities of the undergraduate, the problem is presented in all its acuteness. The situation should, not however, be regarded as a temporary one. The extension of playing hours at the courts was an excellent decision, but one that has been overlapped by present need...
...Aristotle happiness is relative to the exercise of this function. Certainly the educated and cultured man, whether rightly or not, feels that his life is preferable to that of the most comfortable and opulent moron. The choice of being Socrates unhappy or a contented pig is not a tactful problem to present to the business sceptic. The college, then, justifies its existence to a graduate, in presenting him with a complete education. It is mrely fortunate that the presence of these educated men has, even indirectly, such constructive results on society that it may convince future Croesuses who would otherwise...
Economics. Insoluble though it seems, the economic aspect of the farm problem is simple. The only large variable involved is weather. If weather is good, so are crops. Too-big crops make too-small prices. If weather is bad, prices are good but many a farmer will have no crop to sell. Intelligent study of sound weather data will help stabilize his decision as to when to plant but the farmer still needs a gambler's instinct at planting time. And thereafter his fortune is in the lap of winds, rains, frosts...
...Royalists armed with canes. Moreover public sympathy was with Daudet-both because of his high spirit and because the offense for which he had been sentenced to jail was merely technical. In such circumstances the arrest had to be nonviolent. M. le Préfet Jean Chiappe solved his problem by appearing in impeccable full dress at the head of irresistible forces of police and beseeching M. Daudet "in the name of France" to give himself up. Thus, Daudet could and did surrender without losing face...
...human race is divided into three types, tall, stocky and neutral," he said. "The overweight and underweight problem will also be discussed. I intent to use many charts and graphs throughout the talk to illustrate my points...