Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the perplexing problem of picking his backfield combinations pre-eminent, Coach Horween sent his forces through a long scrimmage against the scrubs yesterday afternoon. Two more workouts of similar nature are scheduled, one today and another tomorrow...
...players as Kozeluh and Richards in the pro ranks is rapidly speeding this advance. Tennis followers are already beginning to ask themselves if Kozeluh could take Cochet, and though few can offer any very definite opinion, it nevertheless raises an interesting point. To offer a solution of the knotty problem is, of course only to open oneself to criticism but then who is above criticism anyway? So here goes...
...electric energy is much less per capita than in the United States and the energy is not produced or sold as cheaply as here. ... A cheap and abundant supply of electricity is our aim. . . . This will have a beneficent effect upon British industry and tend to alleviate the unemployment problem...
Last week the Council and Mr. Davis announced a bold solution of Russia's cotton problem. Into the vast parched plain known as the Golodnaya Steppes or "Hungry Desert" two mighty rivers will be diverted. One, the Amudaria, is famed as the longest stream in Asiatic Russia (1,500 mi.). Superstitious peasants call it "The Strewer of Life." The other river is the Sirdaria, "The Giver of Gold." Together they will supply 10,000 cubic feet of water per second for one of the vastest irrigation projects of modern times. Once watered, the "Hungry Desert" will present ideal conditions...
Steinach has "certainly not" tried centronervin on humans. "It is a tremendous field and only sheer ignorance could imagine that such a problem could be solved by a few experiments on tree frogs...