Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Squarely placing before his audience his belief that war was "the most important question before civilized man today", he filled in the economic background of war and foretold that the problem could only be solved by "careful study and hard work". The study of history convinced him that peaceful solutions can be arrived at by compromise and moreover, will be less of a loss economically and not bring in their train worldwide collapse and depression...
Harlow's principal problem now seems to be the ever troublesome tackle situation. Graham Spring and Bill Prout were on the B squad at the beginning of practice, with Spring playing a good, aggressive game. Watson and Burton were on the A squad most of the afternoon...
...American social and economic life. Thus, intelligent opposition to the current administration should be based on a critical examination of specific issues in the light of relative constitutional principles. Attempts to dramatize the Constitution merely cloud the fundamental issues at stake and substitute for an intellectual approach to the problem, the impassioned appeal of the demagogue...
Pittsburgh. The Mellon Institute is a nose-to-the-grindstone organization which pays its own way. A manufacturer stumped by a technical problem may turn it over to the Institute by buying a fellowship for a minimum of about $10,000 of which some 20% goes to the Institute for overhead, the rest to the researcher for salary and equipment. Most but not all of the Institute's output is highly specialized of interest mainly to the client it benefits' Sodium metaphosphate was for a century considered a chemical curiosity. Then an expert on boiler waters discovered...
Since the Tercentenary occurs during the summer vacation, Mr. Jerome D. Greene has a difficult problem on his hands. Any such celebration demands the participation of the undergraduate body. Yet Mr. Greene does not know how to start a spontaneous movement among students to return to Cambridge for September 16, the great...