Word: problem
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...some word which will describe we citizens of the Dominions who are not Britishmen, at all. We "Canadians" are fortunate in our name, and so are the "Australians"; but "New Zealanders" is awkward, and "South Africans" sounds as though one meant the blacks. It's all quite a problem. Personally I am still "Englishman" enough to be glad that my father was "a soldier of the Queen," though I would hate to have to fight for the present Prince of Wales, if he ever becomes King. Not but what I like him, personally; but Canada drifts further away from...
Professor Donald Babcock Keyes of the University of Illinois told the chemists at Chicago that the process is practicable. He invented it, although other scientists academic and industrial have worked on the problem and made reports in scientific journals. Professor Keyes' pronouncements always carry weight. Onetime (1924-26) director of research for the U. S. Industrial Alcohol Co., he is generally listed among the 175 leading chemists of the U. S. His assistant in the aluminum research was Dr. Sherlock Swan...
...City of New York. Using this village as a base, they will push by airplanes and sledges toward the South Pole, establishing camps 100 miles apart. From these, they can fly over a considerable portion of Antarctica's 5.000,000 square miles, studying many a curious problem. Geologists will have hunted fossils. Astronomers will have gazed at the beautiful aurora australis, southern counterpart of the aurora borealis (northern lights). Cameramen Willard Vander Veer and Joseph T. Ruckner will have filmed scenes for a gripping ice drama of the future, to be produced by Paramount Pictures. Newsgatherer Russell Owen will...
City fathers pondered the distinction between a washerwoman and a laundry owner, gave it up, referred the problem to City Magistrate Edwin Burgess...
...persuaded to speak at his summer home on one of the Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence, but all he said was: "I will wholeheartedly cooperate with the next President of the U.S., whoever he may be, provided my co-operation is wanted, for the solution of this [agricultural] problem." Then he turned to his recreations-golf, fishing, boating, permitting politicians to be certain that he would make no bolt...