Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this group of students there will, of course, be those who have so wisely resolved their problem of employment that it would be presumptuous to solicit their further attention. But there are those, on the other hand, who for one reason or another accept such proffered employment hastily and with little or no effort to appraise its nature or its consequences...
...much trouble to investigate beforehand the most important problem of his life; he must learn behindhand by experience. This for Methuselah, but hardly for mortals. In any job this man will get but a worm's eye view of one business, and his hours will be too full even to give much thought to alternative occupations...
...high-handed tactics against C. I. 0., was staged with a brassy precision which only the Hague machine could produce. For to Frank Hague, who has kept himself in office for 20 years, often rolling up election majorities that would be a credit to Adolf Hitler, the problem of turning out 16,500 people* for a rally was duck soup. In Jersey City, as the Mayor has said...
...Pancho the elephant, largest and most inedible survivor of Madrid's El Retire Park Zoo, last week closed his little eyes and died of malnutrition. Next day the Leftist Govern-ment in Barcelona made a move it had threatened for over a year. To solve the food problem in Madrid, it ordered that all civilians not engaged in necessary war work must leave that city within 30 days or be evacuated, "by force if necessary." The necessity of using force seemed remote, for the Government has the power to withdraw the 850,000 food cards now outstanding...
...meet the problem of ski conditioning Cox, an ardent ski enthusiast himself, has inaugurated special calisthenics classes for skiers...