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Word: problem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also at home because overenthusiastic helpers in emergency are a problem in themselves. No one's feelings have been hurt but we have been given to understand that we can help most by staying at home and will be called if we are needed. If ever there was sure evidence of the value of a City Manager and the City Manager form of government, this great, quiet, unexcited municipality . . would be proof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 15, 1937 | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...dream a of the Maintenance Department is no mail, and the dream of the Postman is no deer. But there must be mail and there must be a door to keep the mail in. The problem has been to get the mail in and to keep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: He Bit His Nails, Pounded His Nails But Couldn't Control the U. S. Mails | 2/12/1937 | See Source »

...hole which was large enough to admit the size volumes that comes form some self esteeming institutions, was large enough to admit the whole Post Office Department, excluding James A. Farley, and as a result the mail was in serious danger. The next problem then, was to keep the mails in and the males...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: He Bit His Nails, Pounded His Nails But Couldn't Control the U. S. Mails | 2/12/1937 | See Source »

...striking changes is being considered in all quarters. The present situation, as demonstrated of this fall, was far from ideal. Prospects for an improvement in the next few years look increasingly dark. By dealing with intra-mural athletics the Committee seems, perhaps, to side-step the more pressing problem of big time Varsity football, but a second's thought will show how inextricably tied up the question of House, or intra-mural, athletics is with the rest of the program. Gate receipts, gate receipts, and receipts again spell doom or a vigorius existence for all sports, minor or major...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOBODY CARES BUT YOU | 2/12/1937 | See Source »

...much thought on possible alternatives or modifications of the present intercollegiate set up. The intra-mural scheme is one of these alternatives and it is this system which is up for consideration today. Does it work? Should it work better? Is there another system which would solve the problem more satisfactorily? Is it the logical solution of the conflict between gate receipts and a full athletic program? If so, how rapidly should the system be brought to fruition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOBODY CARES BUT YOU | 2/12/1937 | See Source »

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