Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long has the University dodged this problem of Freshman eating. It is high time Freshman be considered as adult human beings, and their requests given the attention they deserve. At least a share of alleged profits made in the past by the Dining Halls would he well spent giving Freshman with ten o'clocks an opportunity to enjoy the sleep of the studious...
...find a suitable opponent for heavyweight Champion Max Baer is the problem that has vexed Madison Square Garden's Matchmaker Jimmy Johnston ever since Baer won the title from Primo Camera last June. Camera is still the right size, but the U. S. public refuses to believe that he can fight. First step toward clearing up the matter was made last week in Hamburg, Germany, where Max Siegfried Adolf Otto Schmeling, who held the heavyweight championship in 1930-32, started an attempt to get it back with a bout against Steve Hamas, onetime Penn State footballer who thrashed...
...problem which the machine actually worked on last week was the Vanderpoel equation for activity of vacuum tube oscillators. The originator of the equation found it possible to work out one solution every two days. It takes a long, while to set the machine for this problem, but, once set, it whips out solutions at the rate of four per hour. Mr. Travis thinks the machine may solve astronomy's knotty "three-body problem."* Professor Charles DeVan Fawcett, the machine's enthusiastic impresario and financial nurse since its inception, believes it will calculate the factors of maximum efficiency...
Reduced to simplest terms, the machine has ten "integrators," each of which is set by a hand dial to compute the effect of a variable quantity on the problem to be solved. Each dial sets two movable parts -an 8-in. stainless steel disk, mirror-smooth, and a smaller wheel with a knife edge in contact with the disk. Governed by precisely controlled friction, the speed of the small wheel is the crucial factor in solving any problem. A bevel gearing delivers that factor to the "answer table" where the factors from all the integrators are combined and the final...
...name "Voice of Experience" Taylor adopted about seven years ago when he was already well known as a broadcaster on marriage problems. So successful was his booming voice, his "clean handling of sex problems that he now employs 29 private secretaries, all male, to answer his intimate correspondence. In addition to 5,000 broadcasts, Taylor has had time to write 120 pamphlets on such miscellaneous subjects as "Facts About Fruits" (A-19), "Why Be Unique? (B-11), "Insomnia" (C-8), "Why Take Your Own Life?" (C-10), "The Nudist Fad" (E-8), "Feminine Shapeliness" (F-14), "War of the Sexes...