Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Month ago at the Sinnissippi farm of onetime (1917-21) Governor Frank Orren Lowden, near Oregon, Ill., the two Republican chieftains met and announced that they were "in agreement on every essential problem." This meant that they were not prepared to disagree in public. However, last fortnight in Topeka, Alf Landon called a national radio mass-meeting, spoke his mind on the state of the Union for half an hour (TIME, Nov. 1), without so much as a lukewarm mention for Herbert Hoover's biggest political plan. Last week, addressing a meeting of 3,000 Republicans in Boston...
...managed to keep from delivering for a fortnight declaring that Russia for the time being will cease paying her share of the committee's expenses. "The question of belligerent rights," Maisky on instructions told the committee, "has nothing to do with and is foreign to the problem of non-intervention...
Article 56. Now that 20 years have rolled over the Russian Revolution-a full generation during which the Soviet Union has been governed by leaders not one of whom openly believes in God or is a professing Christian-the problem of religion seemed until recently to Soviet editors to have all but vanished, has suddenly cropped up again because Article 56 of the new Election Law says...
English A, although possibly a monster of boredom to several hundred fledglings unable to wield adverbs and prepositions, accomplishes this basic purpose. Those who wish to go further than the required course in composition carries them usually take English A-1, and this course presents a problem in teaching for the single reason that it contains men interested in two different kinds of writing...
During the investigation prior to this eport, we of the committee appointed by the Council have found it very difficult to confine ourselves to the specific problem assigned us. Both parties to the ontroversy have presented us with a wealth of evidence which we have been obliged to consider irrelevant...