Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...color photography, an attempt is being made in the Anthropology Department to solve one of the many problems confronting the physical anthropologist, the problem of measuring eye pigmentation and pattern. The experiments are being carried on by Edward Hertzberg under a grant from the Milton Fund...
...general steps to be taken, and two of them are still untouched. First, a satisfactory method of recording must be developed, preferably one which will be practicable in the field. Secondly, there must be found a way of measuring and expressing the actual color values of the plates. This problem is still unsolved...
...would eliminate hand-picking would revolutionize the economic and social structure of the South. Reason for the nonappearance of such a cotton-picker is not sociological but technological. For 80 years men have tried to build a serviceable machine, and many a machine has been exhaustively tested. But the problem of taking in all or nearly all the ripe bolls without injuring green plants or gathering so much rubbish that ginning is impossible, seemed insuperable. International Harvester Co. is estimated (although it disclaims the figure) to have spent some $3,000,000 in cotton-picking research. Every year it sends...
...Dalzell (William Powell) starts his day, not with orange juice but with a highball while shaving. He also requires four Martinis, ten stingers, one beer and an unspecified quantity of brandy neat. Through all this drinking he not only maintains perfect sobriety and finds himself encouraged to solve the problem of who killed Gossip Columnist Tommy Tennant but also manages to make himself so charming to his friend Donna Mantin (Ginger Rogers) that nothing will satisfy her except marriage...
...trod on is diabolically tempted to scream "Why did you take Harkness's money anyway?" It must be remembered, however, that this situation is one which was dimly expected, and one for which neither the House Masters nor the University are responsible. Before the final solution of this problem Harvard must mark time. The only possible outcome without a reduction in the number of admissions to the Freshman Class is an enlargement of the House Plan, a goal which, unfortunately, the University is not in a financial position to attain at the present time...