Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Problem of the Meaning of Words," a subject which aroused a storm of comment when it was popularized by Stuart Chase last year, will be the topic of a free, public lecture by Dr. Kurt Goldstein in Emerson Hall at 4.30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon...
...this end it has an established program, the principal instruments of which are the informal week-end discussion groups which have met during the past few years. To these industrial house-parties come the invited representatives of prominent firms, who meet together to confer on some large industrial problem. They listen to the views of Harvard professors and other business experts on the latest developments in commerce and production, hear the philosophies and arguments of opposing sides in current business controversies. They discuss and debate among themselves, attempting to formulate their own opinions. They take time out from the mechanical...
...little is known about their present strength. The fact that the Princeton meet is away will add immeasurably to the team's troubles, for not only will there be the hazard of the Tigers' three national stars, Van de Weghe, Hough, and Parke, but there is always the problem of a strange pool to slow up Crimson swimmers...
...Central Australia, a more radio-wise part of the British Empire with a rural isolation problem, flying physicians go out on radio calls. Ranchers, farmers, miners have pedal radio transmitters, take exhausting rides on stationary bicycles to generate power for calling the doctor by radio...
...free-speech issue is child's play compared to the brass-tack problem of carrying New Jersey for the New Deal, and last week Franklin Roosevelt sent his No. 3 Cabinet officer, Secretary of War Harry Woodring, to Hudson County to do business with Boss Hague. The occasion was a rally for the Senate candidacy of William Harvey Johnson Ely, who has been administering WPA in New Jersey and who, though a Hague protege, has promised to be a 100% New Dealer. Secretary Woodring's business with Boss Hague was to find out whether, in return for continued...