Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Circle wears well because it offers no dated problem in morals, but a permanent reflection on human nature. The Woman with a Past who had darkened the drawing room of Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan and Pinero's The Second Mrs. Tanqueray was no such baleful figure for Maugham. If Lady Kitty has a mission, it is to avert tragedy, not foment it. But knowing human beings, Maugham cynically foils her, shows how the sins of the mothers, far from being visited upon succeeding generations, become their copybook maxims. And knowing the theatre as well, Maugham...
...measured. He found seven: ability in 1) numbers, 2) words, 3) visual imagery, 4) memory, 5) perception, 6) induction (finding a rule governing a set of facts), 7) verbal reasoning. Dr. Thurstone also isolated two additional factors that he was unable to identify definitely but tentatively called deduction and problem solving. The fact that his findings did not quite agree with his original theories seemed to Dr. Thurstone proof of the validity of his tests. He had expected to find only one verbal factor, actually discovered two-word fluency and verbal reasoning...
...translations. Most pretentious operatic theeing and thouing can be blamed not on opera's original librettists but on their 19th-Century English translators. For many years Cambridge Professor Edward J. Dent; one of England's most eminent critics and musical biographers, has brooded over the problem of translating operatic texts into sensible, singable English. Published recently were his translations of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute and Beethoven's Fidelio. Where a hitherto much-used 1850 translation of Don Giovanni reads...
...Continued to mull over the railroad problem. Virtually everyone in the U. S. from linemen on the B. & O. to the editorial staff of the Wall Street Journal had his eye on Senator Burton K. Wheeler, whose Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce has the job of drafting railroad legislation. Senator Wheeler's first move was a conference with representatives of railroad operators and workers. Ignoring the suggestion of wage cuts, the conference took up the following proposals: further RFC loans to the roads, revision of rate-making procedure, regulation of water transport, elimination of Federal barge lines, passage...
...anything that will put men to work." Back cracked the industry's spokesman, President Wendell Willkie of Commonwealth & Southern: "Greatest immediate requirement of the utility industry is a large inflow of common capital indispensable for much-needed additional construction. Loans by the government will not solve the problem. The solution is dependent on a restoration of confidence on the part of potential utility investors. This confidence can only be restored by a clarification of the power policy of the administration...