Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...today? You should feel it in Calcutta! Most people last only five years in India. That was the length of my appointment?long enough! For my duty as Advocate General of Bengal was to act as a sort of personal court of final appeal. Perhaps the greatest single problem which cropped up to face me was whether or not to prosecute Mahatma Gandhi. . . . Will you gentlemen have more...
...through one of the two tubes. Object: to test the ventilating system, upon which the whole success of the tubes depended. Result: complete success. The fumes did not spread more than 50 feet; were swept out of the tunnel in less than two minutes. . . . The problem of ventilating 9,250-foot tubes was more complicated than it would appear. Blowing fresh air in at one end and sucking it out at the other was pronounced impossible. It would take too long to clear the foul end in the event of a conflagration, and the percentage of carbon monoxide...
...Profound Problem...
Quite unexpectedly, President Ernest Martin Hopkins of Dartmouth College offered a solution of the intercollegiate football "problem." Let only sophomores and juniors play on the varsity teams, he said; let each college have two varsity teams, so that each college could have "the big game" at home every year (idea first advanced by President Clarence Cook Little of the University of Michigan); let the coaches be undergraduates, presumably seniors. President Hopkins did not believe that Dartmouth was in a position to bring about these extensive reforms singlehanded. He begged the Dartmouth Athletic Council, through which he addressed himself...
...high noon the Vagabond is confronted with the same problem which gave him halt on Monday, for Professor Post at Fogg Museum is continuing his series of lectures on "Florentine Painting of the Fifteenth Century", while Professor Conant at Robinson Hall continues his discussion of Early Christian architecture with a lecture on "Basilicas...