Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rhode Island, however, presents a peculiar problem in that the Keaneymen use a man to man defence on the entire floor instead of dropping back into defense position once they have lost the ball. They are one of the two or three teams in the country which use this system of defense. The Crimson, on the other hand, falls back into the more conventional defense position and uses a rotating offense instead of the break...
...work, was studiously omitted from the questionnaire on the grounds that the Committee was afraid that "people wouldn't admit it." Well, perhaps. But to disguise this under "too much time spent in extra-curricular activity" is hardly a step toward the plain-speaking that is necessary if the problem is to be solved...
...extent the teaching of journalism can be divorced from actual newspaper experience cannot be disentangled from the main theme. Then, too, the will's phraseology must be kept in mind. Even today it is possible to see the loose constructionists and the strict going to the mat about the problem of just what constitutes "the promotion and elevation of journalism...
...this emergency President Roosevelt, before sailing for South America, issued an executive order empowering the government-owned Alaska Railroad to commandeer government ships or charter private vessels, import food. Soon as three ships had been chartered, the problem rose of getting strikers to load and man them...
...enjoy the sunset years? . . . Things are going rather badly for your daily newspapers. . . . Even in cities where your papers have shown slight [circulation] gains, their competitors have run away from them by many thousands. . . In advertising revenue, also, your papers have not been doing so well. ... A special problem for you has been created by your present attitude toward union labor. . . . When, however, your own reporters and editors tried to improve the condition by forming a perfectly legal and orthodox trade union, you fought them hoof and claw. ... It is hard to resist a conclusion that you are in favor...