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Word: problem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Premier Molotov soon came back to the big problem: "Nobody could have expected the Polish state would have such impotence . . . collapse is a fact . . . Polish statesmen have revealed their utter bankruptcy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Dizziness From Success | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...Even a light French motorized division needs 423 gallons of gasoline to move a mile, and Germany's Panzerdimsionen with tanks and armored trucks burn many times that much fuel. Darting in and out, operating far from base and covering scores of miles on each raid, their refueling problem becomes tremendous. If Germany is to fight a long war, she must get still more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLISH THEATRE: Blitzkrieger | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...America today also hates the German state with a hatred terrible to behold. For her there is no problem of war guilt, no question of allegiance, no division of sentiment. And she holds a certain love for her jolly. British cousins, and her French buddiea. She hopes that they will win. She hopes so very much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHIFT INTO NEUTRAL | 9/23/1939 | See Source »

...paper Harvard University looks like a snap to navigate. Actually the office buildings, stores, and fruit stands which press about the University make the problem no cinch for the tyro who cannot distinguish between the Cambridge Trust Company and Holyoke House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GEOGRAPHY OF HARVARD PUZZLES TYROS | 9/22/1939 | See Source »

...been very negative. The study cards, "due or else"; the meetings in the Union, with their streams of advice and of traditional Harvard (professorial) humor; the coming attempts to draft Freshmen into various extra-curricular activities--these cannot be treated negatively by the men involved. Seriously speaking, then, the problem boils down--after the first, short-lived confusion--to this: how best can a balance be obtained between the academic and the social in a college career...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "LET NOTHING YOU DISMAY" | 9/22/1939 | See Source »

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