Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...standout in the Harvard backfield is Larry Boston, 190-pound triple threat, who should prove a tough problem for the Worcesterites to solve. Guarding the center of the line will be 185-pound Jim Fearon, who has been promoted to the starting lineup. Otherwise the team is composed of experienced players...
Obviously the only solution to the problem is Recovery with the jobs and opportunities inevitably resulting. But, as Mr. Williams himself declared: "There will be no expansion of private industry to include these young people in any time that you and I can foresee immediately." Which proves, simply enough, that government expenditure, even of the most extravagantly charitable kind, cannot solve the problem...
...asked to prepare a speech of not more than five minutes on either side of one of the following questions: "Resolved" That Italy is the unjust aggressor in the Ethiopian dispute," "Resolved: That the Roosevelt Administration deserves the confidence of the American people", and "Resolved: That the greatest problem of our national society is constitutional reform...
...creditors were never really worried about getting their money back, though deficits have been a Central rule since 1932. The problem is the carrier's, not its creditors'. But a possible solution developed hot correspondence between hard-hitting Jesse Holman Jones, RFChairman, and hard-hitting Harold Stirling ("Mike") Vanderbilt, executive committee chairman of New York Central...
...this feature Mr. Vanderbilt objected strenuously, arguing that it was too high a price to pay for having his problem solved. If all the bonds were converted, it would add 3,600,000 shares to his capitalization, nearly a 50% dilution of stockholders' equity...