Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lumber firm in Seattle, Washington, and will have officials of the company come to Cambridge as speakers. The firm, whose name is withheld, has been undergoing heavy financial losses in a period of great building activity, and a study of this paradox, with an effort to solve the problem, will occupy the students in the course for the next month...
...Into this mechanical mind" said Dr. Bush, "can be fed the conditions of a mathematical problem too complex for the human brain to master, and it will promptly grind out the answer and write it down, as efficiently as a machine takes in lumber and chemicals and produces finished boxes of matches...
...basis for the work during the next few days. The end play, notably deficient as a defense against wide, sweeping end runs such as those used by Marsters and Lane against the Crimson last Saturday, will no doubt come in for considerable attention, as will also the problem of working out a plan of secondary defense which will prove adequate against a passing attack and open running plays...
...island like Japan, who are increasing at the rate of almost 900,000 a year and who cannot, because of the policy of other Pacific nations, export in sufficient quantities either population or goods. The conference did not, of course, explicitly recommend any way of dealing with this problem, but the various speakers tended to indorse the Japanese contention that the other Pacific peoples ought to modify their own policies in order to take care of the Japanese increase in population. If they were unwilling to accept Japanese immigrants, it was their duty to provide Japan with raw materials...
...Perhaps the central problem this year was that of China," continued Professor Wilson. "The exclusion of foreigners, the Shanghai incident, the struggles of contending generals, taxes and tariffs, were discussed, as well as the aspirations and ideals of the Japanese people...