Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prospect of having a new gymnasium in the near future, immediately gives rise to the problem of the disposal of the old Hemenway...
...agricultural problem can best be remedied by the government by setting up some machinery for the control of the surplus during a year when the farmers produce an exceptional crop. This could be let out in the lean years and the price of agricultural commodities stabilized. The government should establish some such machinery as that by which Brazil controls the coffee grown there...
...Farm Problem was solved by promising more Rural Free Delivery...
...North Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Colorado-have 63 electoral votes. Added to the nucleus of the Solid South and New York, upon which the Smith candidacy is predicated-the total would be 222 if his courtship has been 100% effective. Before the most optimistic of the Smith managers lay the problem of how to acquire 44 more electoral votes from the following possibilities...
...invariably plays the obnoxious, precocious whiffet who upsets plans, causes heartaches by his wilfulness. In this piece he is the smartaleck vaudevillager whose wife becomes a famed cinemactress while he is left in comparative obscurity. He wins her back from a sleek cinemactor (Ricardo Cortez) after slap-stickery and problem-solving...