Word: problem
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Credit to the brooding vigilance of Reader Spurlock who last spring won $100 for the best solution of a chemical engineering problem (TIME. May 27). Correct spelling : reconnaissance...
...Unsolved Problem. Where Canadians stand in the Empire and their attitude toward King George & Queen Mary as symbolized in the Dominion by Lord & Lady Tweedsmuir may be shrewdly guessed from a major pronouncement during the campaign by Premier Bennett. Though pro-English, a personal friend of the King, and with the warmest feelings for the Mother Country and her aristocracy, Mr. Bennett on the stump felt obliged to say to Canadians: "The Motherland is still vigorous and powerful, but it is no longer the directive machine of our national life. . . . Relationship between Canada and Great Britain still constitutes an unsolved...
Toward solving this problem the Governor-General will contribute with his canny words, while Canadians grapple with the real problems of unemployment, loss of markets, higher taxes, the dole, and whether Canada's two great duplicating railway systems, one State-owned and the other private, are to be merged and if so, whether under the state or private capital. None of these issues definitely crystallized in last week's general election, a depressing orgy of muckraking, boos, catcalls, rubber razzberries, fist fights, suits for libel and bombastic broadcasts...
...question of whether Cornell will lose all its games this season was almost answered when it tied the score in the third quarter against Syracuse, again became an interesting problem when Syracuse made one more touchdown in a hurry...
...else they will realise that the gifts are only necessary because of the incredibly uneconomic, ineffective, and positively stupid treatment, by their benefactor, of the problem of Recovery...