Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cheerful side of the infantile paralysis problem, Claus W. Jungeblut of Columbia University declared: "Although it is premature to draw any definite conclusions from this preliminary report, there seems to be a strong probability that Vitamin C, when injected in the proper dose, possesses distinct therapeutic power in experimental poliomyelitis...
...credit management to the Federal Reserve Board. Last week, for the fourth time in 1935, the members of those august bodies met in Washington, looked at one another with sad eyes. They had met to part but even their parting was not allowed to be sweet sorrow. A grave problem and bitter issue was on hand to discomfit even their valedictory...
...most persons of Peace & Goodwill were wringing their hands, namely, that if Italy gets Ethiopia, then Germany will eventually get back the colonies seized from her during the War by the Allies. Benito Mussolini, lumping Japan, Germany and Italy together as "unsatisfied peoples," declared that their needs constitute a problem which the League of Nations is unable to overcome and that "cannot be overcome without Italy...
...Ability." Meantime at Atlanta, the Southeastern Conference shed a flicker of realistic light on the problem of professionalism by agreeing as follows: "Athletic ability should receive consideration ... in the assignment of scholarships. . . ." But the Conference was quick to hedge this frank position by resolving that "such assistance shall never be granted primarily as a reward for athletic services" and that it would include only expenses for books, tuition, board, lodging...
Working on the problem from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. daily, without even taking off her hat, Miss Frick first decided that warehouses were not safe enough for Frick pictures. Before any remodeling was done at all, a fireproof, burglarproof vault was dug in the basement of the house in which every treasure was moved. Then the vault was bricked up. Doors and corridors had to be rearranged. In order to install a modern air-conditioning system the panelling in several rooms had to be taken apart piecemeal and replaced. Eighteen ten-ton blocks of marble were quarried...