Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, July 6, Philosopher Hawkesworth states as an imaginary problem- 'A man . . . driving . . . along Pennsylvania Avenue at 40 m.p.h.," etc. Philosopher Hawkesworth protests that celestial problems cannot be solved by terrestrial reasoning, but "a man driving along Pennsylvania Avenue at 40 m.p.h." is the very problem that Washington has to face, and the death rate proves that only by clear terrestrial common sense can the celestial problem be solved for over 100 people a year...
...Still haunted by the memory of the murder he committed 17 years ago, he tries to lay the ghost by telling the story of his life. But it is less a story than a one-sided conversation, a kind of soliloquery which wanders, digresses, returns again & again to the problem: why should this little boy have grown up to be a murderer? Author Sandemose's eccentrically concentric chronicle is impressively, sometimes oppressively, realistic...
...purely English problem, tithes have been collected since 786 A.D., mainly to support the Church of England, farmers originally paying a tenth of their crop to the parson. Since 1836 cash payment has been enforced, and in 1936 rural indignation is such that of 5,500 court orders obtained last year to enforce payment of tithes not one was executed. The Tithe Bill, as passed, is to end tithe payments as such by handing to the Church and certain swank "public schools" gilt-edged stock worth $350,000,000 and paying 3 % interest guaranteed by the State. In turn...
...Morgan's neuritis was real misery. In this ailment the nerves become inflamed. Those most often affected are the great nerves in arms and legs. Sharp pains dart along them, causing intense agony. Muscles may lose their tone, permit the limbs to dangle. The diagnostic problem is to discover and treat the original cause of the neural inflammation. This may be some toxin absorbed by the system, such as poisonous metals (lead, arsenic, bismuth, mercury) or carbon compounds (alcohol, Jamaica ginger, carbon monoxide, ether). Toxins may be generated, among other ailments, by childbed fever or diabetes. Neuritis...
What had caused the trouble in Mr. Morgan's case was Drs. Denny and Jessup's problem. With his patient secluded and at ease in his own home, Dr. Denny cheerily declared: "Mr. Morgan is improving. He should be all right in about two or three weeks...