Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...medicines will help victims of scurvy, and best cure for the disease lies in an abundance of natural fruit juices. But although he appreciated Federal aid, Commissioner Lead-better's medical director, Dr. George Holden Coombs, made it clear that proud Republican Maine could solve her scurvy problem her own way. "Vitamin C," he said, ". . . is present in the potatoes which are raised in large quantities there in Aroostook. But it is readily lost if the potato is cooked after peeling. Vitamin C is readily soluble in water. We would seek to educate housewives to-use such water...
...Sore spot of the Conference was the mosquito problem. According to conservationists, drainage ditches of the eastern U. S. (end to end, they would belt the world at the equator three times) have dried up swamp vegetation, starved out wildlife. And all for nothing, according to Dr. Clarence Cottam, chief of the Biological Survey's division of food habits. Said he: "The millions of dollars spent on mosquito control had resulted in more U. S. mosquitoes last year than there had been in the previous ten." Some of the mosquito projects, he said, were "comparable to curing dandruff...
...matter of grave concern to pious Catholic Joseph Vincent Connolly, general manager of all Hearst-papers. Month ago he reportedly made a vain effort to present in person the Hearst case to George William Cardinal Mundelein. Last week, the American began a series of articles on "The Youth Problem" by well-loved Bishop Bernard J. Sheil, founder of the Catholic Youth Organization and ranking Chicago hierarch during Cardinal Mundelein's absence in Rome. Some Catholic friends of the Guild angrily assailed this kind of "scabbery," but a quiet word from Bishop Sheil's office stopped them...
William E. Hocking, Alford Professor of Philosophy, who originally issued a statement condemming the "closed door laboratory policy," this afternoon amended his opinion. He felt that Bridgman "had attacked a real problem." He continued, "The free advance of science is the most tangible superiority of free people. Individual scientists may well feel the responsibility that Professor Bridgman feels...
This is only one aspect of a much larger problem,--the whole question of coalescing, enlarging, and correlating various fields of study. This question is now under the deliberation of both the Student Council and University Hall. Regarding the more limited field of elementary survey courses, it is quite possible that some time in the near future Harvard may set up a system of introductory courses similar to those at Chicago and Columbia Universities. There, several fields are included under a few very broad topics such as the Humanities and the Physical Sciences...