Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...problem of checking the rising tide of government expenditures has, in fact, become acute and requires the closest attention not merely from the standpoint of the Dawes plan, but in the interests of German economy as a whole...
...Chicago presents a cab problem, New York City presents a greater. Chief City Magistrate William McAdoo last fortnight deplored the presence of 17,000 cabs, most of them plying night and day in the congested runways of an island only 12½by12½ miles. Competition between the 17,000 is so great that, in Mr. McAdoo's words, "You can stand on any corner and count the number of taxicabs in proportion to other vehicles and two-thirds of them are taxicabs, cruising, cruising, empty, empty, everywhere...
Among the problems which, though not entirely peculiar to the Engineering School, have yet assumed greater proportions there than in the College is that of inculcating a certain skill in the use of English in those students who have not acquired such an ability before entering college. The Engineering student, fully occupied with the rigorous requirements of his specialized training, has not the incidental opportunity to develop a clear and facile style in writing which literature courses, and written reports afford his classmate in the College. Moreover, while English A was far from a panacea for all difficulties, the abolition...
...prospect viewed in the light of the present system of endowed education is decidedly gloomy. But whether or not Mr. Rockefeller has accurately forecast the trend in the relationship between wealth and education, the problem remains one for the educators to solve both as a safeguard against such a situation and as an extreme important problem in itself...
There are two periods in man's life, or at least in an artist's life, Thomas Mann claims, the productive, active period, and the didactic, reflective period. One does not pass from one to the other without mental pain. That is the problem of Gustav Achenbach who dies a rather ignominious death in Venice. This work, though morbid and bitter in tendency, shows Thomas Mann at the height of this career in handling words, in mastering the language. There are few pages in German literature comparable with some in "Death in Venice", particularly those which are transcribed from Plato...