Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thing I like about the Oxford Group approach is the fact that they say to me, "All right, we agree that present conditions are bad, but how about starting with you? Are you part of the problem or are you part of the answer?" The way they ask the question, however, makes a great deal of difference. They do not ask it in a belligerent or combative tone, but in a tone which has a kindly approach, which disarms antagonism, and leads to constructive cooperation...
When Depression struck in 1929, unemployment was a problem for which the U. S. was totally unprepared. Last week, such was not the case. On the contrary, Recession's latest unemployment peak came just in time to coincide with two New Deal schemes especially designed to deal with...
...step nearer solving the Allston urchin problem, Brooks House announced yesterday that its plan for keeping the huge Smith playground back of the Business School open during the winter months and staffed by Harvard volunteers has been favorably received by Boston Park Commissioner William Long...
...course we haven't figured out a few very small details, such as where the appropriation to pay the supervisor is coming from, but we hope to dispose of that problem when we see Commissioner Long," he explained...
High points on the varied program which lasted from December 28 through December 31, were the opening address by President MacCracken of Vassar, and a discussion of the peace problem by Norman Thomas, perennial Socialist presidential candidate, Frederick L. Schuman, professor of political science at Williams, and Frank Olmstead of New York University...