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Word: problem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of the debates will be on the administration's naval expansion, the New Deal's program of business regulation, compulsory labor administration, and the problem of women jurors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EIGHT MEN WIN PLACES ON DEBATING COUNCIL | 2/10/1938 | See Source »

...Fortunately," he said, "it is easy to ventilate processes of manufacture which require these substances and to reduce air contamination practically to the vanishing point. Such treatment of the problem at once removes both the possibility of systematic poisoning and the annoyances that rise from cases of acne...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Tests Reveal Liver Poisoned By Widely Used Factory Chemicals | 2/9/1938 | See Source »

...audience Governor Earle posed the problem of whether or not censorship should be invoked against foreign propaganda through the movies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOV. EARLE URGES MORE U.S. SPENDING AS ECONOMIC CURE | 2/8/1938 | See Source »

Perhaps the selections from President Conant's report published in the Crimson were misleading, but I understand him to have said that enrollments should be cut because a growing percentage of university graduates are unemployed. I cannot see how that has anything to do with the problem. One might just as well say that we should abolish high schools because so many high school graduates are unemployed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 2/8/1938 | See Source »

This worried Patriot Lopez, and he decided then & there that something must be done to make the national anthem more singable. Crux of the problem was to reduce its twelve-note range to something more like the average popular tune's eight notes. Originally designed to show off lusty tenors and rumbling bassos,* the tune's high & low notes squeaked and croaked when essayed by snack-fed debutantes and their escorts' whiskey tenors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Squeakless Anthem | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

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