Word: problem
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cozy three-hour chat. Because the meeting was "unofficial" no communique was published by II Duce but the capitals of Europe were soon buzzing with reports that Italy had promised to support eventual Nazi domination in Austria; that the two bigwigs had talked freely about their most pressing common problem, Spain; had discussed schemes for helping each other to achieve "economic independence...
...railroads and communications will break the political stranglehold of Sao Paulo, Minas Geraes and Rio Grande do Sul and make the United States of Brazil as hard to manage as the United States of America is still remote, leaving Brazil's politicos free to wrestle with more immediate problems. Most immediate problem, whether General Flores da Cunha really could start a revolution, Getulio Vargas seemed to have for the moment well in hand. The next, whether he should succeed himself or put in a proxy president to warm his chair for him next year, Brazil was anxiously waiting...
With over three hundred men of the Class of 1940 refused admission to the Houses, and with all but a few odd rooms praceled out on the first assignment last Saturday, the University has been brought face to face with the most serious problem since the inception of the House Plan. For if the House can cope with only two-thirds of each sophomore class, the question of where to put the remainder and which the Houses bring to the rest of the College looms all-important...
...number of years physicists and engineers have been working on the problem of providing a source of very high voltage X-Rays which would approximate in wave length the gamma rays of radium, and which could be produced in intensities equaling the output of several hundred grams of this element...
...students the improved facilities acting as a strong incentive toward a serious study of the noblest of the muses. It can be earnestly hoped that when the present apprehension in regard to the Freshman riots is dispelled that the University will turn its attention to this very real problem...