Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that a second jury sail would be broken out: that corn loans would be granted, though not at 60? per bu. Secretary Wallace discreetly observed that if figured in the same relation to so-called "parity prices" as cotton, the corn loans would be about 46? per bu. Only problem was to find the money-a problem complicated by President Roosevelt's announced determination to balance the budget (see p. 17). After a huddle with the President and Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, Mr. Wallace declared with engaging vagueness: "Money undoubtedly can be found somewhere. Human ingenuity can meet...
With the development of science has come greater and greater knowledge of the functions and structure of the human body. ". . . one problem," writes Dr. Rhine, "remains conspicuously unsolved. It is the greatest of all puzzles about the nature of man. 'What is the human mind? Where does it belong, if anywhere, in the scheme of our knowledge as a whole?'" This is the puzzle that this book and, more important, these experiments, have attempted to solve. Whether they have is a question not to be answered at once, but certainly they have awakened the knowledge that there are "new frontiers...
...lineup, injury jinx makes the principal problem. Of three veteran and stellar fullbacks, Coach Carr never knows for certain if any of them will be able to play until about the day of a game. Captain Dick Powell is permanently benched with a trick knee; Joe Bradley has a thigh ailment which usually allows him to play at least part of a game, recurs, and keeps him out for two or three days. Ted Robie injured his spleen in a headon tackle in the Dartmouth game and finds his return to action pretty much...
...research program of the Harvard Bureau has differed in one respect from that conducted by others. While the safety factor has always been recognized as the most important part of the problem, the Harvard bureau has been equally interested in the factor of congestion as it affects the fullest and most efficient use of automotive transportation. Thus, much of its research energy has been and will continue to be devoted to a study of the "business" aspects of street and highway transport. This is especially demonstrated in its studies of new and more efficient types of street construction which...
There has been no reason to modify the original belief that the ultimate solution of the traffic problem lies in sound principles, intelligently applied...