Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possible solutions to the present problem of House dances, the projected Harvard "prom" is undoubtedly the worst. Such a function, while getting rid of none of the important evils of House dances, would completely destroy the charm of the undergraduate social season, and would cause every self-respecting student to go out of town for the weekend on which it was held...
...committee itself has another report to submit, on the wider problem of tenure and teaching at Harvard. It is up to them and the faculty to make it clear that democracy is not merely an ornamental world for Commencement addresses. --The Nation
...young man forced to choose between marrying an heiress, who is ambitious to have him take a profitable job in her father's bank, and his own desire to stop making money and take a holiday to find out what life is all about. Johnny Case solves his problem neatly by leaving his fiancee, Julia, to rusticate in the Seton mansion, eloping with her older sister, Linda, who shares his disdain for her family bankroll. If, even in 1928, it was a little difficult to take seriously the plight of a hero and heroine whose chief problem...
...more columns than anybody else." But there are no columns in the Wheaton art centre. What led the judges to decide on Hornbostel and Bennett was the simplicity of their design, one of the most compact in the competition; their understanding of financial, operating and teaching problems. The finished art centre will be fan-shaped, snuggling naturally to the contours of its location. Candidly dissatisfied with the appearance of the building, the judges picked Hornbostel and Bennett on the strength of their ground plan, contemplated many changes before the art centre is erected, but felt sure that architects who could...
...obsolete. 2) The entire basic mechanism of television might be changed. 3) Either the effective range of television's video wave must be lengthened beyond the present so-mile radius or the band of wave lengths needed for a television station must be reduced radically to solve the problem of wavelength congestion...