Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stock sale in Belmont, Ohio, Robert Alphonso Taft, son of the late President, and Republican candidate for U. S. Senator, auctioned off a calf for 14½? a pound instead of the previous top of 9?. Cracked Candidate Taft: "It just shows what I can do with the farm problem if given half a chance...
Questioned on the problem of propaganda, Goldstein felt that modern advertising had by playing on the fears and hopes of the buying public increased the number of hypochondriacs, and that it was up to education to develop a resistance to propaganda...
...Impairment of abstraction in patients with lesions of the brain cortex; the significance of abstraction for normal life"; "Amnesic aphasia; the problem of the meaning of words"; "The patient's adaptation to his defects; the problem of coming to terms with the surrounding world"; "Organization of the personality"; "The individual and his relationship with others"; "The nature of man; skepticism and egoism evaluated...
Possibly, however, this vicious circle can be broken. A newly-formed committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Science believes that it can--through extensive, impartial study, followed by a program of public education. Always before, they point out, research on this problem has been conducted by a group hopelessly prejudiced one way or the other, or else the results of its investigation have been buried deep in the files of libraries, there to rot away and never become available to the reading public. When the results of impartial research are made generally known, they contend, a workable...
Obviously this plan offers an alternative worth trying. The problem of liquor control is merely a phase of the age-old conflict between individual liberty and the general welfare; and this problem has never been solved except through compromise. Moreover, only through general education can any solution be feasible, for the most perfect theoretical plan can be wrecked on the rocks of public indifference. It is safe to predict that the efforts of the committee, even if not wholly successful, will go far toward solving what they rightfully regard as "one of the major perplexities of our civilization...