Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effort to solve the problem presented by the vacancy left in the center of the forward line by the absence of Dudley Bell '28, star center of last year's eleven. Coach Arnold Horween '21 had R. H. O'Connell '30, former Exeter captain and stellar end of the Freshman team of three years ago, out with the centers practicing passing and blocking. J. H. Gildea '31, Freshman pivot man of last fall, considered to be the leading candidate for the post on the first eleven this season, is still out with a leg injury but is expected back about...
Finance Minister Luis Montes de Oca explained, in a report addressed to the Mexican Congress last week, that Sir Henry was called in consultation, last year, when it became apparent that the problem of the national debt could not be resolved until the national railways had been placed on a sound basis. As a result of Sir Henry's report, said Señor Montes de Oca, "The Ministry of Finance are convinced that rehabilitation of our finances will not be realized if the National Railways are not administered as a private enterprise...
...Switzerland last week the problem was handled frankly, swiftly. When a bill was offered to the cantonal legislature of Vaud that body passed it unanimously...
Seeing the farmers caused Mr. Raskob to ejaculate that the Farm Problem is indeed a Problem. He talked about his Eastern issue, Prohibition, hardly at all and assured the Midwesterners that they need not give it a thought during the campaign...
...Significance. With sure instinct for phenomena of "high society" Mrs. Wharton discerns a newish problem-the sad lot which falls to children of selfish modern parents, divorced. Whether it is a sadder lot than falls to children of selfish modern parents, undivorced, is not the question; and fortunately all question is subordinated to the acute analyses of scatter-brained complications of parents, quarrels among sophisticated children, well-bred war between their middle-aged bachelor guardian and the widow of his choice. Falling short of greatness, The Children is an eminently entertaining tragi-comedy of the times. Sinners will ignore, pharisees...