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Word: problem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stated that in an article in the Atlantic Monthly I had "announced my discovery that there is no God"; and further that my solution of the moral problem in our time is: "a new morality founded on psychological laws." Both these statements are incorrect and misleading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 16, 1949 | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Blonde Cinemactress Virginia Mayo, 26, appeared to two men to be the answer to a problem. "The Sultan of Morocco told [her] that she was for him the most striking proof of God's existence," said the Rev. A. J. Long, 29-year-old bachelor pastor of Britain's Southwark Unitarian Church. "Why not?" mused Pastor Long. "The beauty of woman is a revelation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 16, 1949 | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Shrewd Bargainer. In Fox, Schenck has acted as peacemaker and problem-solver for Zanuck and his temperamental stars. Although a shrewd bargainer, he is known as a soft touch for down & out troupers. He took good care of everyone but himself: in 1942 he went to jail for four months for perjury arising out of a $412,000 income-tax-evasion charge. When he got out, he took up where he had left off, and, in the opinion of many Hollywood-ians, is correctly billed as the grand old man of the movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prelude to Divorce? | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...Stromboli last week a blonde woman, whose proud, luminous face is known to millions, paced the ashen slopes. Cinemactress Ingrid Bergman, 34, dressed in a sweater, slacks and rope-soled shoes, was trying to work out a personal problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Fantasy on the Black Island | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...Macao are backdrops for the others), but all of them have a common theme: the tragedy of a billion people caught in the tidal wave of change sweeping the Far East. Complementing this theme is the guilt-edged confusion with which Shaplen's white men duck the vast problem instead of facing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Guilt-Edged Confusion | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

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