Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blight of any educational institution is the widespread prevalence of dull, factual examination questions demanding little but an air-ting memory. Veering away from such a danger, two recent trends at Harvard have approached the problem from different directions, both pointing toward a more successful criterion than factual memory. The value of the first trend, substitution of more general exam questions attacking a broad subject from a particular angle, has been recognized by practically every department, even in the most technical sciences. On the other hand, the second trend, the use of essays, papers and short theses in place...
...will never attempt to solve the colonial problem by military force," barked General von Epp. "When Hitler told Chamberlain at Berchtesgaden, and again at Godesberg, that the colonial question remained a problem, he officially opened the negotiations. Our claim is to all our former colonies. Whether, when the actual moment for bargaining for them comes, we shall show restraint is for the future to decide. If we do, then we shall demand compensation for whatever we do not claim...
...York Herald Tribune's eighth annual Forum on Current Problems. Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn (Little Women, Little Minister, Alice Adams, Mary of Scotland, Quality Street), attacked the cinema industry for its ostrich attitude: ". . . Let a movie try to depict situations in which we are all involved now; let a movie try to wake people up to their own plight . . . ; let a movie try to present a moral, economic or political problem of today honestly and simply, and they are advised to hear nothing, say nothing, do nothing...
...problem: Does a candidate who takes the customary air time of a popular program draw to himself the attention or the hostility of the program's audience? Candidate Dewey* last week bought on Station WJZ (Manhattan) 30 minutes of Tuesday evening time, half of which usually goes to the Information Please program. Although he was still talking when his time was up, WJZ cut him off to pick up the second half of Information Please, on which Harpo Marx was a noisily silent guest juror,† By telephone Information Please fans berated NBC for giving part of the program...
This familiar dearth of new financing was admittedly I. B. A.'s big problem, but last week the 585 merry conferees produced no new explanations for it, no new remedies. In his opening address Banker Frothingham gave measured expression to I. B. A.'s usual explanation-that the New Deal is to blame. Said he: "Business still feels the gravest concern and hesitancy to venture, in the atmosphere of restrictions and penalties that confront it." Nonetheless, Banker Frothingham gave the New Deal praise for right motives...