Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stressing the novel approach of the Boston court, Mr. Sands will outline the problem of delinquency and then illustrate his points by specific cases that have come to his attention in the five years he has been Probation Officer...
Petitioning a California court for permission to invest part of its endowment in common stocks, Stanford University introduced as a witness Trustee Herbert Hoover. At a San Jose hearing Trustee Hoover testified: "The trustees of Stanford University . . . are now confronted with a grave problem. . . . For 50 years much prudence and wisdom have caused the trustees to invest the endowment, now amounting to some $24,000,000, in seasoned bonds and first mortgages. . . . The devaluation of the dollar, the widespread bank credit inflation and the possible menace of currency inflation are the new factors with which the trustees must deal...
...character which he has immortalized on the screen without sense of shock at such obsolete cinematic devices as subtitles and exaggerated pantomime. What may be the reaction of 10,000,000 cinemaddicts who have grown into the audience since the days when Chaplin pictures were everyday occurrences, is a problem to be answered by the box office. Judging by its reception in Manhattan last week, Modern Times is likely to find a satisfactory niche in the winter program of U. S. cinema entertainment. It is a gay, impudent and sentimental pantomimic comedy in which even the anachronisms are often...
...that Nature is not divided into compartments, wants to confine charged and uncharged particles, gravity and light within a single geometrical framework. Some time ago he concocted relativistic field equations in which particles were treated as "singularities" in the field. Dr. Silberstein carried this out for a two-particle problem, found that, though all stress between the particles disappeared, they remained stationary. Since either Newtonian or Einsteinian gravity would require them to fall together, this seemed to be a reductio ad absurdum. The New York tabloid Daily News headlines: SILBER TOPS EIN WHEN STEIN MEETS STEIN...
...INFLUENCE OF WOMEN - AND ITS CURE - John Erskine - Bobbs-Merrill ($1.50). A wisecracking college professor's saline solution to the feminine problem...