Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problem is not sufficiently abstruse to require the services of a logician. A mere student of semasiology will recognize the employment of the word accident in this case as being entirely dependent upon the motive and intent of the golfer. . . . The result of the manner in which he uses his clubs is one of perfection or imperfection, not chance...
...Rats had a simple case, which they naively expected the council to treat as a moral problem. Four As, for reasons which it considered good and sufficient, recently threw out the subsidiary American Federation of Actors (vaudeville, night clubs, circus, etc.) and A. F. A.'s Executive Secretary Ralph Whitehead. Alert Mr. Browne promptly rechartered A. F. A. as a subsidiary of his union, with authority to snatch cinemactors from Ralph Morgan's Screen Actors Guild, singers from Mr. Tibbett's American Guild of Musical Artists, stage actors from potent Actors' Equity Association, any & all performers...
...were postponed a few days-obviously, said correspondents in Danzig, to let Nazis find out what had been decided on the mountaintop. League of Nations High Commissioner for Danzig, Dr. Carl Burckhardt conferred with Herr Hitler, launching a new crop of rumors: 1) that a settlement of the Danzig problem was in the air; 2) that Danzig might be part of a general European settlement. Count Ciano went back to Rome. The Premier of Yugoslavia returned to Belgrade. The Regent of Hungary made an unexpected "private" visit to Berlin. Poland's line remained-in Marshal Smigly-Rydz...
Unable to pull his top-heavy Fair out of the red this year, Grover Whalen is faced with the problem of running it a second year. But there he will tangle with the League of Nations. In 1928, under the League's friendly wing, 22 foreign nations formed the Bureau of International Exhibitions. Under its rule signatories cannot participate in any fair longer than six months. That would mean curtains for next year's World of Tomorrow, because, if the nations which erected buildings tear them down, there will be ugly gaps in the Fair's landscape...
This answer to the challenge of Pan American's 41-ton Clippers (which last week completed in 24 hours their thirtieth crossing of the Atlantic) had cost Imperial many a costly survey flight, costlier technical trials & errors. The chief problem had been to provide for profitable payloads. Since Imperial's Empire flying boats could not lift half the Clippers' payload from the water, they had resorted to getting as much of a load as possible in the air, then gassing up for the long ocean flight...