Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That a subordinate committee be appointed to consider the problem of security and arbitration...
...that powers of assimilation are variable in given groups of young men. He who requires explanations with his argument must needs seek elsewhere. Unless he seizes upon the enormous reading facilities-including both space for readers and books to read-of Widener he will be faced with an insoluble problem-and lacking a why for his wherefore...
...special engine, the first of its kind every built in this country, has been purchased, and will be used for the experiment projected by the Engineering School. This engine, remarkable or its high potential speed, is of German invention. The problem facing engineers at present is to get higher speed and less weight, and the achievement of this end would make diesel airplane engines practical...
...graduate research in Engineering in an American university, the holders of which are chosen from the whole British Empire. Alexander, a graduate of Cambridge University, and Brown, who graduated from the University of Glasgow, are both specializing in the same field, and have both been working on the same problem, that of perfecting diesel engines for airplane use. They will combine forces this year in an effort to solve the problem...
...Oxford," Chadwick continued, "the town is merely an adjunct of the University. We don't have the traffic problem as you do here in Cambridge. Moreover we are used to looking the wrong way for motors. When I start across Harvard Square, I took to the right. By the time I realize I should be looking the other way a honking horde of cars has descended upon me from the left. It's quite the most dangerous place in the world...