Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yearly for cosmetics-perfumes, toilet waters, cold creams and talcums. A favorite talcum has been one that imitates a coat of tan. A new perfume intended for men is golden brown and has a bouquet reminiscent of Scotch whiskey. In the face of robust custom, the problem of advertising cosmetics to men is no less difficult than the problem of cigaret-makers advertising to women smokers...
...lack of energy in carrying out a systematic and efficient canvass of the feeling of the undergraduates on the question. The decision of the Freshman Committee to abandon its petition after obtaining two hundred signatures means only one thing,--there will be no amelioration of the eating problem for at least another year, Five hundred names was set by President Lowell as the quota necessary to assure the University administration that a sufficient number of men were desirous of gastronomic reform to warrant the construction of the hall. It was also stipulated that unless the petition was filled before...
...This problem like many treated in Social Ethic's courses is one on which every intelligent being has ideas of his own, but which can often be greatly clarified by the aid of an intellect trained in that particular branch of learning...
Colonel Starling went to eye the many locations offered to President Coolidge for his summer vacation. Ornithologists, recalling the starling's reputation for appropriating the nests of other birds, punned feebly on the name of the President's emissary whose problem is not to find a home but to choose among the many offered by generous donors with available premises and a yen for publicity...
Valery is by reputation the defender of the conscious mind. A man of wide and profound learning, as well as a poet, and an admirer of the creations of the mind which constitute our civilization, he has set himself the problem of discussing the basis of the intellectual life. The exterior dissimilarities of the sciences and arts have lead to the belief that they are widely separated. 'These labors, however, differ only by variations from a common basis." So he goes beneath the surface, down into the depths of the mind as it is at work in propounding a mathematical...