Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With devastating frankness Il Duce conveyed to Il Papa the idea that if the Papacy will lend Italy the 20,000,000 marks Italy will lend the Papacy an equivalent sum in lire. This deal would solve the Pope's transfer problem, insure that the contributions of pious Germans reach their destination. Italy, with a 20,000,000-mark credit inside Germany, could then purchase much wholesome German goods and raw materials and thus ease the squeeze of Sanctions...
Educated at Washburn College and the University of California Medical School, Bowman served as First Lieutenant and Captain in the Medical Corps during the War. He is now working on the problem of curing insanity by the adjustment of hormones...
...bureau since its establishment. "Many of the principles of traffic control as now applied professionally throughout the field were developed in Harvard University. This expansion of activities is a reflection of the importance of this phase of research and training. "It is indicative of the significance which the traffic problem has assumed in American life and of the advances which have been made in developing technique for the reduction of traffic accidents and of congestion. There is now a wide demand throughout the United States both in government and in private organizations for the services of men who are thoroughly...
Aside from its unquestionable rightness and its equally unquestionable sincerity, Norman Thomas' effort has little to recommend it. It hammers away at a problem that faces America and the rest of the world, a problem that seems now adamant, now soluble. The trouble is that to those who believe in war it will make no difference and to those who hate war it will make no difference either. Being relatively inexpensive, it should get around to almost everyone for examination at least, but the reviewer believes, and he is honestly sorry for it, that the book will-make few converts...
...tried & true formula: Boy Meets Girl-Boy Loses Girl-Boy Gets Girl. No one knows better than Messrs. Mandel, Hammerstein and Romberg how exasperating it is to try to find a fresh method of stating this old theme. Last time out together (East Wind, 1931), they solved the problem by having their boy meet their girl in French Indo-China. This year their situation, for musicomedy, was novel enough: a Viennese psychiatrist marries a woman who is in love with another man, cherishes his sorrow so blindly that he fails to see she has learned to love him, works himself...