Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the U. S. has a relatively small and slow merchant marine, Navy officials have brooded long over the problem presented by Great Britain's large and fast merchant marine, equipped with many liners such as the Mauretania, which could be transformed into light fighting units by the mere mounting of guns. Citizens of the U. S. have been made aware of this problem through statements released by U. S. experts at the now defunct Naval Limitations Parley (see p. 10), and therefore the Navy Department was able to arouse unusual interest last week by announcing new plans...
...speaks of John's "stupendous revelation of the coming final unfoldment of the great problem of being, the rise and fall of the dragon, the second appearing of Christ as 'a woman clothed with the sun' (Mrs. Eddy), who should bring forth a manchild...
...golf course is built. Summer homes grow up around it. Parents take up the game, turning their offspring loose to paddle for themselves?until some of the offspring (Alexa Stirling, Perry Adair, Rob Jones) can beat the parents. Then comes the problem of developing young talent without letting it become infant-prodigious. Rob Jones's paternal grandfather refused, even when discovered in galleries, to admit to any interest in the 13-year-old club champion, the 14-year-old state champion or the 15-year-old Southern chaimpion. Not until 1923 when Jones Jr. was 21 and about...
...Pacific Institute can discuss conditions, deplore evils, suggest remedies; meanwhile the man who holds official authority and responsibility for Hawaiian affairs is Governor Wallace Rider Farrington. Governor (by appointment of President Harding) since July 5, 1921, he has been, is and will be concerned chiefly with one major "problem" the Japanese question. For while the Hawaiian Islands are called Hawaiian on the maps and in the histories, the original Hawaiian stock constitutes less than 10% of the island population. The most recent official figures on Hawaii (the Federal Census of 1920) gave the Islands a population of 255,912. This...
Even today the problem of "honesty" has barely been at tacked. Rather indeed it has been dismissed in suave words, attributed to Dr. Millspaugh: "We find that many Persian officials are endowed with great potential honesty...