Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carle C. Zimmerman, associate professor of Sociology. Working with a staff of Siamese appointed by the government, Mr. Andrews made a thorough study of the Siamese people and of all phases of their life throughout the kingdom, in order to learn how Siamese initiative may be applied to the problem of commercial development...
...most maligned courses in the university. Being compulsory for all who fail to attain a grade of 75% in the English entrance examinations, it has lost none of the stigma attached to any course vitiated by an aura of compulsion. Such a course by no means presents a simple problem to its instructors, for students expecting to be bored by the repetition of grammatical rules bring to the course no interests of their own. In view of these facts, it might be well in justice to English A and its instructors to reconsider the aims of the course...
President Conant and the Corporation are again faced with the problem of expressing their disapproval of the Nazi influence upon German universities and at the same time their sympathy with those members of the universities who are still doing good work under the handicaps of rigorous governmental control. Heidelberg University has just sent Harvard an invitation to participate in the celebration of its 550th anniversity this June, and at the Corporation meeting today it is probable that the reply will be discussed...
...vexatious problem is that of weight. Fuel tanks must be light but capable of withstanding high pressure. For the moment aluminum alloys serve fairly well for tanks and motor but not for the jet nozzles which often collapse in a few minutes. This is due not only to heat but also to the abrading effect of the issuing gases. "Will electrochemists supply us," asked Professor Klemin, "with another super-aluminum alloy to withstand all this...
...paint pictures or turn and glaze pottery. For the Department of Justice last week he had nearly completed two knife-narrow panels showing a prisoner entering and being released from a Federal penitentiary. Possibly none of WPA's artists-on-relief could have handled so difficult a space problem so easily...