Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...both the new Coach and the squad of candidates that reports to him at this opening session the 1935 season will present a problem of the first water. The schedule, for one thing, is one of the hardest that the Crimson has listed in years. Then, too, there is the problem of Harlow's orientating himself to his new job. Lastly, the material from which Harlow must build a team will be none too strong...
...have striven to report accurately and sympathetically. If this fate were peculiar to me, it could be accounted for quite handily upon grounds of dunderheadedness and dissipated I.Q. Hut since I have few reporter or editorial acquaintances who have escaped such visitations, I gather that it is a perennial problem, not only to the trades of journalism, but to all allied or competitive industries of public entertainment...
...Nanking and steamed up the Yangtze. Ahead of him on a specially chartered ship was his brother-in-law, onetime Finance Minister T. V. Soong, China's No. 1 financier. Down to meet them swooped from the interior their common brother-in-law. Generalissimo Chiang. A minor problem first to be disposed of was the abrupt resignation 'of Chinese Premier Wang Ching-wei and several lesser members of the Cabinet. Moon-faced Mr. Wang resigned "because of poor health," the others "in sympathy with Mr. Wang." Politicians, they were getting out in advance of the coming Kuomintang (National...
...National League indignantly refused to allow it. Then Colonel Jacob Ruppert of the New York Yankees made Judge Fuchs a present of Babe Ruth. Dazzled momentarily by what he mistook for good fortune, Judge Fuchs soon learned that shrewd Colonel Ruppert had merely passed on his most perplexing problem. In June Ruth left the Braves in a rage because he had been refused permission to attend a party on board the Normandie. Last fortnight President Fuchs handed over his stock to Vice President Charles Francis Adams* and resigned. It looked as if the Braves would soon have to enjoy...
...surrealists by two generations with such a drawing as Bridget's Dream, a nightmarish wedding of nightshirts, handkerchiefs, sunbonnets and bed socks (see cut). Generally however, he preferred historical scenes like the Opening of the Erie Canal or The Casting of the Liberty Bell. The Professor viewed the problem of woman suffrage with considerable alarm. He did a satirical series of pictures on the Triumph of Women's Rights. Typical was the scene at the polling place (see cut), where female ward heelers, one in pants, make life miserable for an unfortunate male...