Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Young Dr. Alvin Edward Strock of Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital has long furrowed his brow over this front-tooth problem. The simplest procedure, he thought, would be to insert a peg in the socket of the extracted tooth, then cement a false tooth to the protruding end of the peg. But he never dared to do it, for he knew metal pegs might induce mouth irritation. Two years ago Dr. Strock decided to try the new alloy, vitallium. Vitallium is the most satisfactory metal doctors use for patching fractures. Fortnight ago, in the American Journal of Orthodontics...
Although it all happened about 40 years ago, Gogarty remembers everything as if it were last night. The reader's problem is whether to admire most Gogarty's memory or his imagination. "An Irishman," says Gogarty, "believes best in what he knows to be untrue...
...partial solution to this problem was explored last week when the U. S. Navy was authorized to open negotiations with the No. 1 U. S. shipbuilder, No. 2 steel unit-Bethlehem Steel Corp.-to buy its West Coast shipyard, helping to free Bethlehem to concentrate on expanding its East Coast shipbuilding capacity hard by its East Coast steel and armor plate shops. Meanwhile Army & Navy men are exploring possibilities of organizing a West Coast steel industry to serve local shipyards...
...problem of evil" each man must find his own answer, the President stated, and "not attempt to dodge the problem by wishful thinking." He attacked the enervating effect of an individual's or a generation's self-pity and found cause for some optimism in history's recital of unfulfilled evil prophecies...
...present course of University policy suggests the possibility of an ironic solution to "the problem of the younger teacher" at Harvard: namely, not to have any younger teachers at all at Harvard, except those who are still seeking their doctorates...