Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chronic intestinal disease," complained Trotsky from his Mexican refuge. "I don't have direct data that the death of L. Sedov is the handiwork of the GPU [Soviet secret police]. . . . At the disposal of the GPU there are very exceptional scientists and technical means, which makes the problem of medical examination very difficult...
...dozen of savants who were supposed to be the only men in the world able to understand the Einstein theory of relativity. At Harvard's Tercentenary celebration in 1936, he showed how to bisect a "horn angle" (an angle formed by two curves tangent to each other), a problem which had stumped mathematicians for 2,000-odd years. His fun: talking to children...
...millions of dollars. Caught unawares by the current war, mission boards have been operating on an emergency basis, have been unable to formulate long-term policies. In general: 1) their missionaries are remaining at their posts or moving to areas where they may be especially useful; 2) their chief problems involve transportation and maintaining medical relief stations: 3) tHeir future problem is the incalculable one of restoring wrecked establishments. For their emergency needs, at least half-a-dozen of the principal U. S. churches have launched money-raising campaigns...
Modern Youth is also deeply troubled about how to get along with people-their parents, their teachers, their friends, their sweethearts. Delayed marriage-the result of prolonged schooling and joblessness-"aggravates the problem of sex adjustment for youth . . . with a corresponding increase in masturbation, clandestine relations, prostitution and homosexuality...
...fill Charles Judd's shoes posed a pretty problem for University of Chicago's unorthodox young president, Robert Maynard Hutchins. who has been busy the past year attacking progressive education. Last week, still incorrigibly unorthodox. Bob Hutchins gave the job to the fair-haired boy of progressive educators, Ralph Winfred Tyler...