Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stuff is the cost of land?i. e. its rental value. Many a farmer bought land during the War boom when farmland was worth more than it is today. (The effects of this situation are gradually wearing off?but it is still one of the factors in the farm-problem...
Financier Robert Fulton Cutting modestly stayed away from last week's meeting of the American Society for the Control of Cancer in Manhattan, where President Emeritus George Emerson Brewer of the College of Physicians & Surgeons asserted again: "The most important present day problem in cancer control is publicity. Research work in cancer is making great strides and the great need is to teach the public to have the disease treated at an early stage of development. . . . If every case could be recognized in two weeks after cancer has set in, and then treated by surgery, there would...
Taken together, these reforms are a significant commentary upon Professor Bliss Perry's conduct of English A during the short period that he has dealt with the difficult problem of Freshman English. Just as the first innovation will limit the membership of this course to those who have failed to obtain a mastery over simple English expressions in school, so the second will transform its conduct, so far as it appears possible within the narrow limits of its field, into a course which will have a more justifiable place on a college curriculum than it has had in the past...
Whatever the answer, however, it is chiefly important to realize that a man must have the deep conviction that human life is worth while before he can hope to experience the best in his own life. How to get this conviction is the main problem for him. Very truly yours, Samuel C. Landers...
That this is one and the same problem must be evident. The pressure of life, of civilization, of the machine, of the group, of science, of any one of the bugaboos which are our modern dragons and goblins, upon the individual, has become immense. That the Verlaine of absinthe and pomegranites should make a pilgrimage to the Holy City cannot seem entirely unrelated to the somewhat sordid suicide of four promising American undergraduates within the space of a few weeks. The only explanation that is sufficiently vague to be true is that of failure to adapt oneself to an inevitable...