Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...separate section of the paper deals with the problem of individual research. At present there is no specialization allowed for during the course work; the possibility of taking up private research during the third year is considered in the questionnaire...
...extend NRA for two years seemed about to take a licking (see p. 16). He had on paper only a bare margin to prevent passage over his veto of the Bonus Bill which would dump $2,000,000,000 worth of greenbacks on the nation. He had the problem of roundly rejustifying his whole program of lavish expenditure-in order to justify excluding the Bonus...
...Honorable Senators!" he cried, and every Fascist leaned forward, knowing that potent words would follow: ". . . The problem of Italo-Ethiopian relations is the order of the day, and not only in Italy. . . . One rumor abroad in some foreign circles is to be denied formally immediately-a rumor of Franco-British diplomatic 'steps' in Rome...
British literary critics of the mauve decade were mildly amused by a gifted young man who called his very first book The Works of Max Beerbohm. Future titles might well present a problem. But merry Max Beerbohm outwitted his critics by later publishing a volume called More, then Yet Again and eventually And Even...
During the past year U. S. students of chemical engineering, anticipating similar problems when they find jobs, worked on this practical practice problem: Select equipment for the recovery of acetone from a mixture of acetone and air by means of an absorption tower, using water as the absorbent. Students were obliged to deduce a plant of the most economical type and to calculate its annual operating cost. They also had to design certain auxiliaries, such as a heat exchanger, a condenser, and a still boiler, and to figure the most economical way of running the whole system...