Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Liberty's torch, right hand and wrist, but that was imposing enough. An armature for a statue 152 ft. high was beyond the capabilities of Sculptor Bartholdi. He called in his friend Engineer Eiffel - already planning the tallest tower the world had ever seen - who solved the problem by designing a skeleton for Liberty in the form of a central steel mast round which are wrapped two spiral staircases, braced like a camera by a quadruped of four iron pylons. On this framework the whole weight of the statue hangs. Not bronze is Liberty's skin but hand...
...time when it is conducting an endowment drive, Princeton is loth to accept money from so dangerous a sources as the International Union. Yet the principle of turning down ready cash seems altogether ridiculous. From this simple beginning the University has built itself a mountain of a problem...
...pulled out of his hat during his absence. Undergraduate dissatisfaction with his "double or nothing" rule concerning the entertainment of women in the Houses has been expressed loudly many times during the past month, and with the cooperation of President Conant and the Masters a solution to the problem can doubtlessly be achieved...
...number of House Masters, who after all are more closely concerned with the problem of parietal rules than any one else, have let it be known they consider the new law unnecessary and ridiculous. A sensible viewpoint was expressed by Professor Murdock of Leverett House who, in a talk on October fifth, admitted that rule would prove unworkable. He showed the casual attitude with which the Masters had approached the problem when he said that the present rule had been accepted "because it seems less absurd than any other rule that has been suggested...
...favor of repeal, and asked for a standardization and revision of the old law. This step, timed to greet Mr. Conant upon his return, completes the picture of undergraduate opposition. The Student Council did not flare up in anger. Its decision was based upon a serious weighing of the problem and an observation of the new rule in use during the past month...