Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also a Chamberlain Map, showing what Czechoslovakia, Britain and France remained ready this week to give Germany. A German communique announced that the Godesberg Negotiations had been "friendly," and Neville Chamberlain on arriving in London said: "I trust that all concerned will continue their efforts to solve the Czechoslovak problem peacefully, because on that turns the peace of Europe in our time...
...full swing last week, the 1938 Netherlands war games were, as usual, based on the problem "An orderly retreat from the German frontier and the taking up of positions on a new 'waterline' "-a strip of country that can be submerged within a few hours by opening strategic floodgates...
Young Dr. Merrill Moore of Boston is known as a psychiatrist, semiprofessional swimmer and author of 25,000 good and bad sonnets. With all his zest for life, Dr. Moore is most interested in the problem of suicide, has collected many scientific facts on this phenomenon. Last week in The New England Journal of Medicine he discussed the agent most commonly used by would-be suicides: iodine...
BERLIN-Nazi Minister of Propaganda Paul J. Goebbels, tonight declared that the Reich would never "back down" on the Czech problem. Goebbels, addressing a crowd estimated at 175,000, shouted-"We declare categorically and irrevocably that we want the Sudeten Germans and their land returned to us. We will get it, one way or another." Goebbels spoke as Bitier was speeding southward to Munich to confer with the Premiers of Britian, France and Italy on new proposals for solving the Czech crisis peacefully...
...staff is less concerned with comparative size than with the problem of administering what is already there so that books will be quickly and easily available. To this end the length of time during which a book may be kept out of the library has been reduced from a month to two weeks. This change was made last spring...