Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Cummings talked about crime control and the mayors made a tour through J. Edgar Hoover's Bureau of Investigation. Experts spoke to them on traffic safety, noise abatement, fire prevention. Senator Wagner urged them to support low-cost Government housing. One evening was given over to the problem of "busting the Gas Trust." But the conference really got back to business and excitement when it got back to the subject of relief and Government money...
Professor Packard advocates no scientific and quick method to the undergraduates. His work is aimed at research and is to be extended over a period of years, leading eventually to a real solution to this personally vital problem. Attacking the problem from the angle of self-confidence, Professor Packed should find great consolation in the statistical conclusion that practice makes perfect. Only one sufferer in ten is female...
...know most about bossing "natives," lifted a disapproving eyebrow when it became known that the U. S. was going to let the Filipinos keep house independently. White prestige in the Orient would be definitely lowered when a brown man replaced a white man in Malacanan Palace. One pre-inaugural problem was whether brown Manuel Quezon was to get a 21-gun salute to white Frank Murphy's 19, ultimately solved by giving them both...
While the need for more training is reflected in the development of college curriculums, no important institution but Chicago has had the courage to face the time problem squarely. The average Harvard undergraduate feels he could have learned as much in three years as in four. Certainly the contributions of extra-curricular activities, athletics, and social activities would not be diminished...
Coach Canterbury, whose job it is to produce efficient tenders of the draperies, has on his hands a problem not rivalled in its perplexity since 11 men tried out for the varsity goalie position a year or two back...