Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...descend. ... In an experiment at Karlsruhe, a motorless glider, manned by a pilot, was successfully towed aloft and cut free and brought to earth. Engineers predicted the rest. Needing very little velocity to stay aloft, several gliders would be no great drag on a multi-motored ship, the chief problem lying in getting them off the ground at the start...
...Higher education, properly speaking, has little to do with higher social education, although one may be obtained in the process of digging for the other. Popular fiction has over idealized scholastic matings. And now universities such as that for which the Nebraskan is the spokesman are faced with the problem of removing the gloss of idealism...
...CRIMSON feels that this series has been a successful effort in removing certain misunderstandings, since each article has not only examined the broad topic of its own field but also the manner in which that field is treated in Harvard University, including some of the major problems which one encounters in planning a schedule of one's courses. Next Tuesday the President of the University will talk to the Freshmen, proffering counsel which has always proved exceptionally enlightening in the past and which will, doubtless, aid once more in the practical solution of this annual problem...
...area.* Current political strategy hints that the President will select the Black Hills of South Dakota or some convenient fishing spot in Wisconsin. To him will be called dirt farmers, farm organizers, midwestern Senators and Representatives. The President will tell them how anxious he is to solve the farm problem, will ask their suggestions. Meanwhile, a compromise farm bill will be constructed with his approval. Congress will pass it next winter and the President will have solved a tough knot. . . . Such is the predicted strategy. ¶ Paul Claudel, French Ambassador to the U. S., called on President Coolidge, presented...
...probability is, however, that the Vagabond, having always been an ardent admirer of Poe, will settle the 10 o'clock problem by going to Harvard 2, where Professor Murdock is going to lecture on that meteoric author...