Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pierian Room in Paine Hall is the obvious solution to the whole problem. It can be very easily converted into a reading room, and lined with shelves. The music library now in Widener should be transferred there; and the basement could be used to store the overflow, as there is direct access by a small staircase. No less important is a permanent librarian who knows music, to replace the present one on part time. Any solution takes money, but this proposal is relatively inexpensive, and would give a new lease of life to the Music Department...
...arts with the democratic spirit in politics. The lack of culture in the ruling mob he believes is one impetus to the success of modernistic art which panders to the naive mass of uncultured culture seekers. He believes that the phenomenon of this new art presents a problem for profound study by psychologists. "The deification of ugliness and obscenity, the urge for mutilation, deformation, muddy color and exaggeration, are all symptoms," he says, "of sadism, indicating a form of psychopathiasexualis...
Enter Russia. The visiting Austrians distracted nobody from Europe's major diplomatic problem: how to get Adolf Hitler to sign the Eastern Locarno Pact to nail down with mutual security guarantees all the frontiers of Eastern Europe (TIME...
...when the backwash of inquiries engulfed the town of Vadnagar, local authorities called the story a hoax, either the work of a practical joker or, as the Associated Press found, "the result of an old Hindu superstition that spreading a false rumor sometimes aids toward solving a domestic problem...
...They found further that, as regards quantity of milk, a cow gets seven-tenths of her inheritance from whichever parent has the higher inheritance; as regards butterfat percentage, four-tenths of her inheritance from whichever parent is higher. The dam's inheritance was obvious from her output. The problem remained how to evaluate the bull's transmitting capacity. The Prentice group chose the method of systematically comparing the yield of bulls' daughters with the yield of their dams. In such wise Mr. Prentice's geneticist-in-chief arrived at Mount Hope's crowning achievement...