Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt still hold the job he held 20 years ago, he would last week have had a problem on his hands. Instead that problem was on the hands of Charles Edison, son of the late great Thomas, but the change made little difference. Mr. Edison as Assistant Secretary of the Navy took his problem to the White House where he and his predecessor pored over it together. The elements of this problem were...
...similar problem, about how to get the Navy 2,600,000 lb. of copper developed last December, was solved by finding a loophole in the law: buying copper which had been refined before the law was passed. Navy Men Roosevelt and Edison were also worried, not only because Britain had launched a $7,500,000,000 naval building program but because it was quite possible that Britain might buy 44-hour steel from the U. S. while the U. S. Navy could get no steel. The President had no solution to offer, and next day he put pressure...
...circus figures were skillfully animated toys, but there is an ancient artistic problem back of Calder's Mobiles: the attempt to capture the flash and beauty of bright metals and bits of color actually in motion. Ten years ago the same problem greatly troubled such an arch-conservative as the late Bashford Dean, curator of arms & armor at the Metropolitan Museum, who begged the museum trustees to allow him to put real men at arms stalking about the corridors in the belief that his beloved harnesses were empty shells unless worn by living models...
...Science last week Dr. Gericke discussed his choice of a name for practical water culture of plants. He had first favored the word "aquaculture," but a colleague pointed out that this term already designates the culture of aquatic plants and marine animals. The problem was solved by another Berkeley colleague, longtime Botany Professor William Albert Setchell. At his suggestion Dr. Gericke put together hydro from the Greek for water, and ponos, labor. He likes the word because it has "a strong economic and utilitarian connotation'' and also because of its kinship to "geoponics," the common medieval term...
What is probably the greatest inheritance problem in many years confronts the President and Fellows of the College concerning the will of Mrs. Marcella Upham, wife of Thomas E. Upham '68, it was learned today...