Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese face a further problem. Their puppet government, like all governments in China, can remain stable only if the Chinese populace tacitly acquiesce in it. Will arrogant Japanese advisers be able to conciliate the peasantry at the same time that they try to make them pay for rehabilitating the country...
...expected to succeed, up to a certain point. The great danger is that Japan will succeed only half-way,--destroy in large areas the control of the Chinese nationalist government and yet lack the means to maintain really stable puppet governments. In short, the Sino-Japanese problem has barely been created. The one certainty is that trouble will continue in China for many years to come
...between, the reader is familiarized with the current status,--in the nation,--of the tenant farmer problem and,--at Harvard,--of the great Sorokin controversy; with the peculiar and lamentable treatment of Indian students by Indian Universities, and with the more recent developments in fascist circles in Roumania. This is surely evidence of catholic taste and wide range interests...
...valiantly with Keynes and seems at the end to have his shoulders pinned squarely on the mat though with so slippery a customer one can never be sure. Messrs. Geeharn and Marcus analyze effectively the recent Mexican land report and the Twentieth Century Fund Report on "Facing the Tax Problem...
...While you can fool the engine, you can't fool the propeller," he remarked. "The problem now is to get a propeller which can turn fast enough. At 75,000 feet, the diameter of the propeller must be four and a half times that of a regular propeller. As it turns at swift speeds, the resistance increases 10 to 15 times...