Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spanish refugees. In that expense lies, incidentally, the reason why France has been reluctant to return to Generalissimo Franco the $200,000,000 in gold which the former Republican Government left in French banks. The French have let it be known that they expect the Spanish refugee problem to be solved by September in one way or another...
...Chief problem was how to fly there. He had serviced many a plane but had never piloted one. Mechanic Eshleman forthwith took eight hours' flying instruction, four hours' solo...
...Greatest problem of old age: resignation. Contrary to popular belief, old people are far from sexless. The flow of sex hormones does not ebb when men reach their 60s and 70s. Says Columbia's Anatomist Earl Theron Engle, spermatozoa are formed in at least 50% of old men. Bending a Freudian ear to their querulous complaints, Psychiatrist Gilbert Van Tassel Hamilton of Santa Barbara, Calif, offers the opinion that old men & women are no less troubled by sex problems than are the young. Says he: "Many persons . . . who have passed their sixtieth year vaguely feel that it is time...
...PROBLEM OF THE GREEN CAPSULE-John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). A man is poisoned in the presence of three witnesses, none of whom can tell what happened. But ingenious Dr. Fell catches the culprit. Intricate and astute...
...quality of English," this report says, "revealed by these sample papers seeing to this Committies on the whole unworthy of Harvard Freshman and Sophomores. We are convinced that unless this problem is more generally recognized, the situation is not likely to improve...