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Word: problem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...problem of mechanically picking cotton from bushes has not until very recently been solved. Humans, slaves until 1863, paid field laborers since, have picked cotton bolls by hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cotton Sucker | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...danger of developing a feeling of inferiority to the rest of the world. They fail "to develop a social feeling. Social feeling is what enables human beings to survive in this world†. . . . We can now understand why all actions on the useless side of life among problem children, neurotics, criminals, suicides, perverts and prostitutes are caused by a lack in social feeling, courage and self-confidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Wittenberg | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...book, The Problem of Lay-Analyses (Brentano, $2.50), Dr. Freud argues that psychoanalysis must be performed by especially trained therapeutists, that such treaters need not have medical qualifications, that they may be laymen. It is best for a patient to have separate physical and psychical examinations given by different people. In a second section of this book Dr. Freud gives an autobiographical study of himself. He is a candid and tolerant gentleman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Wittenberg | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

Remember "Brown of Harvard"? It was one of the first of the modern college pictures and was an honest attempt to portray student life at a large university without the usual attendant hokum. Harvard itself formed the background for much of the picture. Of course the problem of proper dress cropped up immediately. Jack Conway, the director, solved it by sending to Brooks Brothers of New York for appropriate clothes for his principles. In addition he used as a guide various snapshots taken in and about New Haven. Men's Wear. Cicago Apparel Gazette...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 10/28/1927 | See Source »

Professor J. A. de Haas, who is giving the course, states that the study of a specific problem of business administration in a firm at present conducting business under difficult conditions will form an excellent center around which to group a study of other phases of the lumber industry. Reforestation, the use of by-products, and the effect of building booms upon the industry will be some of the correlated subjects presented. The Yale School of Forestry will send experts in lumbering and reforestation, including Professor R. C. Bryant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 10/27/1927 | See Source »

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