Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Experimental Theatre of Boston faces the problem of the theatre in-time everywhere in the United States. It must steer a safe course between the clashing rocks of the stock farce and melodrama and the self-conscious radicalism that leaves its seats all empty. When Winthrop Ames took Arthur Schwitzler's "Anatol" over the censorship hurdles same years ago, he beat the Foley of that day by enough so that you needn't go to settle that question. One regrets that the Experimental Theatre throws away a chance to make an honest experiment. Go, if you like...
...competitors for this year's Ware prize were required to submit designs and sketches of a recreation center for an industrial city, a so-called "week-end problem". The subject was announced Friday, November 30, at 5 o'clock, and the time limit for handing in the designs was the next day at midnight. Two other similar Competitions will be held this year for other prizes...
...mismated parts. Her lowlands of orange groves and palms are abundant; but almost totally inaccessible from her enormously high plateaux rich in tin. Without borrowing more than she can now borrow it would be impossible for Bolivia to link her highlands and lowlands by rail. As matters stand the problem of transportation is solved by such primitive means that three out of every four employed Bolivians work as carriers. Even so Bolivia is the world's second largest tin producing country...
...never turns a deaf ear to the appeals of famished, stricken sufferers. When reports were first current (TIME, Feb. 6 et seq.) that 12,000,000 Chinese seem likely to die of famine before next Spring, most citizens of the U. S. confidently left the whole ghastly and appalling problem to the Red Cross. If they thought about it at all, they saw in their minds' eye long lines of Chinafolk, gratefully receiving huge bowls of steaming soup from white clad, starry-eyed young Red Cross nurses. Rude therefore was the shock received by many contributors to the American...
Since the New York Symphony merged with the Philharmonic, Manhattan has felt keenly the need of a second orchestra. Last week the problem seemed solved when the Society of the Friends of Music announced that next year it would have an independent orchestra-to which Artur Bodanzky, now conducting his last season at the Metropolitan Opera, would give full time...