Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Graves turned the problem of preserving the vitality of the sperm during shipment over to his crack veterinarian, Dr. Fred W. Miller. From the bulls Dr. Miller extracted semen containing 1,000,000,000 spermatozoa, mixed the fluid with an equal amount of sugar solution, chilled the tubes to 34° F. (spermatozoa kept in warm temperatures lash their tails until they get tired, die). Next he buried the tubes in diatomaceous earth, a good insulator, packaged the whole in a buttermilk container...
...future of the university tradition in America that is the problem that must concern all of us who are assembled here today. But what is this tradition; indeed, what is a university? Like any living thing, an academic institution is comprehensible only in terms of its history. For well on a thousand years there have been universities in the western world. During the Middle Ages the air they breathed was permeated with the doctrines of a universal church; since the Reformation in Protestant countries these have undergone a slow and varied metamorphosis. But the essence of the university tradition...
...those in authority believe that the School should have a restricted enrollment, due largely to the increasing competition from other Law Schools. Consequently, the new Dean will be confronted by a theory problem...
Liquid content, in these enlightened days, is no longer regulated by statute, but only by the unbreakable laws of hydraulic pressure, and cause and effect. With these physical phenomena in mind, local savants have been recently devoting their time to solving the problem posed by the presence of so many people at the gatherings in the Yard amphitheater, gatherings many of which follow immediately upon the smatutinal cup of coffee...
...Humanities" served a double purpose. Each, in itself, was a significant contribution to knowledge; their really great importance, however, lay in the fact that each represented a different approach to the fascinating study of man, and taken together they constitute a systematic attempt to solve the many-faceted problem of human society...