Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remained to be bequeathed in 1919 to Mrs. Carnegie and the Miller family. Son-in-law Miller's donation to Johns Hopkins financed the bed & board of 13 chimpanzees. These apes contract whooping cough as easily as do children, are more easily managed. The whooping-cough problem is: Does a germ (the so-called Bordet-Gengoubacillus) alone cause the disease, or must that germ have some virus present in the throat and lungs before it causes whooping cough? Upon the answer depends the kind of vaccine or serum to prevent and cure the disease...
...watermen agreed that, with water-borne disease under control, chief remaining problem is to eliminate taste. Success was reported by adding charcoal...
Average daily U. S. death rate is 3,800 persons. Many die far from home, have to be shipped back, which on railroads costs two first-class tickets per corpse. Last week many a Midwestern undertaker, just back from a convention at Springfield, Ill., was pondering this transport problem, wondering if he could turn it to his advantage. The convention had discussed using airplanes instead...
...light which has guided President Conant to the heart of every problem which has faced him is his conception of the relationship that exists between the privately endowed educational institution and the nation. Pursuing this line of thought he has reached conclusions which have led him to strike out on the road toward a Harvard suited to serve both the United States and humanity with a maximum of efficiency...
...fancy-especially when the harbinger of this perennial Noah's Ark is such a downy dove as Dexter Fellows. In the 43 years Harbinger Fellows has been pressagenting for the circus, he has never failed to get favorable free publicity for "the Greatest Show on Earth"; his only problem has been how much he would get this time. The myth of his own personality has grown and flowered to such lush proportions that some have doubted his actual existence. But that he still is and has been very much alive was proved last week by his autobiography (ghosted...