Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...significance of this step is manifold. It shows, among other things that although only five undergraduates in Harvard are interested in the sex problem, judging by last year's turn-out at the first Hygiene lecture, it still maintains a warm sport in the hearts of some of the youth of today...
...part of the problem of obtaining a sufficient number of judges to dispose of cases is the capacity of the judges themselves. This brings forward the question of aged or infirm judges-a subject of delicacy and yet one which requires frank discussion...
...that sympathetic female correspondent to whom so many statesmen find it easy to talk, Mrs. Anne O'Hare McCormick, had a long session on Spain with Mussolini. Crisply he said that Europe's first task must be to end Spain's war, that no other European problem of consequence can be solved until that has been accomplished, that Spain is potentially much more apt to give rise to a general European war this year than was Ethiopia last year. "You make me impatient when you talk about Democracy," Il Duce told Mrs. McCormick. "You talk...
...Association in New Orleans to blow the storm higher (TIME, Oct. 26). Between Christmas and New Year's he called some 600 public health officers and social hygienists, including Dr. Snow, to Washington, let them know that he had $10,000,000 to help them beat the venereal problem, let them urge him to ask Congress for $15,000,000 more...
...great number of bowing sacks, each containing the dead body of a woman, standing upright on the weighted end and swaying slowly to and fro with the current." The number of children produced by harem mothers, and consequently the number of potential heirs to the Sultanate, made the problem of succession a congested one. Murad III, Sultan of the harem's boom days, had 103 children, of whom 20 sons were living at his death. To simplify matters and start with a clean slate, Murad's legitimate heir put his 19 brothers to death, sewed his father...