Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been accepted. So far two college presidents and one dean, including President Conant and Dean Hanford, four college professors, a member of the Boston City Council, a Framingham manufacturer, and a management engineer, as well as an unnamed representative of the C.I.O. have agreed to discuss the public service problem with the undergraduate delegates...
Athletic Director T. Nelson Metcalf--"The University of Chicago is systematically lightening its football schedule. This, I think, is the best solution to the problem of Chicago's consistent gridiron defeats. But if the University administration thinks that schedule in which the team plays smaller schools of their own athletic calibre is harmful to public relations, I do not look with disfavor upon the abolition of intercollegiate football...
Meantime, Nazis themselves were worried. Their problem was how to collect the 1,000,000,000-mark fine for the killing in Paris of Embassy Secretary Ernst vom Rath by Polish Jew Herschel Grynszpan. Some 9,000,000 marks was got out of rich Berlin Jews, but there was some question that the raising of the other 991,000,000 might cause such widespread liquidations of assets that the delicate German economy would be jeopardized...
Main reason why Dr. Lawrence is so loath to part with his cyclotron is that he is now engaged in the most significant problem of his career: the effect of neutron rays on cancer of human beings. The cyclotron whirls ions of heavy hydrogen (deuterons) between the poles of a huge electromagnet, then hurls them into a drumlike vacuum chamber. When they are charged with nearly eight million volts of energy, the ions are shot against a target of light metal, usually beryllium. The bullets knock out streams of neutrons, tiny particles about the same weight as protons but carrying...
...medical problem. Baldwin can leave him to his doctors." David Low, the greatest cartoonist of the time, amuses himself with periodic laughs at Beaverbrook's expense in the Evening Standard. A sample is Low's picture of Beaverbrook at Christmas time, the press lord a tiny figure mailed like Richard the Lion-Hearted, catechizing Santa Claus for failing to bring enough Empire-made toys down his chimney...