Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...represent myself. I want the Committee to consider the problem of my personal fortune...
...clownish Harry Krakow ("King Levinsky") last week was originally scheduled mainly as a build-up for his next really important fight in September but as the date approached, sports writers courteously began to reflect that it was within the realm of possibility for Levinsky to solve the problem by which more aspiring heavyweights had been floored. After all, he had knocked out Tommy Loughran when Loughran was still the world's ablest boxer of his weight. Attracted by this line of reasoning, the biggest crowd that has watched a Chicago fight since the second Tunney-Dempsey...
...persuaded the Queen and Parliament to strengthen the Dutch frontier so heavily that the German General Staff reputedly scrapped a set of plans which was to have sent their War machine crashing across The Netherlands as well as Belgium. Today since the solution of many a World problem may again be sought in war, Premier Colijn is suspected of having tentatively and secretly reversed the most fundamental policy of The Netherlands: neutrality...
...manhood. It has gouged ugly pits in multitudes of skins. Doctors have dealt with it for 3,200 years of recorded medical history. Yet Dr. Michael, in his two cardinal discussions of acne vulgaris, was obliged to state: "The pathogenesis of the disorder is still lacking. . . . The therapeutic problem is not yet satisfactorily solved." Doctors, in plain words, do not know the cause of acne, nor its cure...
Last year there were 79 Episcopal marriages, 296 burials, no ordinations for the priesthood. Vermont Episcopalians are mostly high church, hence will get along with ultra-high Dr. Sutton. Chief problem he must face is finance - how to maintain, if not spread, an extensive series of missionary chapels...