Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost every conceivable thing. It is spending even for the necessary things in ways we cannot afford-in reckless ways which are beyond our means-which would never appeal to any one who has had to work for his money-to any one who has had to face the problem of making both ends meet-to any one who has had to see to it that his bills get paid...
...think what it would mean to the world if Hitler surrendered to God. Or Mussolini. Or any dictator. Through such a man God could control a nation overnight and solve every last, bewildering problem. . . . Spain has taught us what godless Communism will bring. Human problems aren't economic. They're moral, and they can't be solved by immoral measures. They could be solved within a God-controlled democracy, or perhaps I should say a theocracy, and they could be solved through a God-controlled Fascist dictatorship...
...another, a lucky fit is necessary for contact lenses to be worn for long periods without irritation. Hence although they have been known for 80 years, only about 3,000 have been successfully worn. For six years Dr. William Feinbloom, research fellow of Columbia University, labored on the problem of a lens made to fit any given eye perfectly. Last week he told how he solved it. Wax was molded roughly to the shape of the eye, to which it was then applied, left for ten minutes. Body heat and eye movements softened the wax until it conformed exactly...
...family home was completely destroyed in the fire of 1906 and the only home I had left was my good sloop, Aloha. The problem we faced during those terrible days was getting proper food and, even though there was abundance of food being rushed into the city, there was no adequate means of obtaining it and no means at all of proper distribution. Therefore, I used the Aloha for what I called...
...shake a hundred upstretched hands at once. It was found later in the cinders of the road bed. At Cedar Rapids he announced again that he would accept President Roosevelt's invitation to confer on Drought next week, declared: "No individual and no organization should meet this problem from the point of view of politics. I am not concerned about where the credit goes in the solution of the problem of our drought just so we meet it in a humane, constructive, sensible way." That night Nominee Landon slept in the Chicago railroad yards while the David Livingstone...