Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reparations problem. As the work progressed no public utterance was made by any member of the U.S., French, German or Japanese delegations, but the British and Italian chief delegates expressed themselves briefly. Sir Josiah Stamp: "There are three sides to our problem-political, financial and economic. And as soon as we-or any one else-have finished with one aspect, another bobs up. "It is impossible for any one to take account of all three at the same time and it is not in the province of the experts [of the Second Dawes Committee] to do so. They are trying...
...Among the European delegations it is realized clearly," said the Voegler-controlled Zeitung "that the Second Dawes Committee will not bring a definite settlement of the Reparations problem, but that a relatively favorable partial solution can be counted upon which will take account of the interests of all concerned. A definite solution of the whole complex problem will be possible only when the United States will consider a re-examination of its War debt demands...
...have been bad, but Mr. Rosener apparently wrote it with a sledgehammer, and the cast plays it through a megaphone. The Earth Between. The latest play to fall into the hands of the experimental Provincetown Playhouse group is agricultural in background but cannot exactly be said to solve the problem of farm relief. It is a harrowing study of a widowed farmer and his almost maniacal desire to hold, against odds of youth and love, his young daughter. For his motives, see Freud. The play has a certain intensity of gloom, but much of its force is lost in clumsy...
...ducking stool is altogether too archaic for a college campus, so the University of Detroit is attempting to solve the problem of feminine garrulity by threatening to expel any co-ed who is discovered talking to a man on the campus. The objection of the University authorities is that the inherent conversational abilities of the girls prevents many of the men from attending to their studies...
...capable and comprehensive is the book that one's only regret is that the author failed to deal with the much-debated problem of how much a patient should be told of his condition. With this exception, however, it keeps to its profession of frankness and is well worth the purchase of anyone interested in knowing the whys and where fores of the advice their doctor gives them