Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leader's views are merely an opening wedge in ultimate correction of certain evils in intercollegiate football, not in the game itself, but in the background. "Hoppy," as all Dartmouth men know him, probably hasn't reached the solution, but he will start college presidents thinking about the general problem again and someone may hit upon a practical reform platform which is feasible. "Observer" in Boston Traveler...
...these days when the word Imperialism first begins to make its appearance in criticisms of the foreign policies of the United States, when the interest of the whole nation is focused on the Nicaraguan situation, on the Tacna-Anca problem, and on Mexico, and when the Latin-American nations seem to be arousing into an audible self-consciousness for the first time, everything concerning Latin-America is of interest. For this reason vagabonds, desiring to insure that completely rounded set of interests which admits them to the ranks of the intelligentsia and cognoscenti, will attend Professor Haring's lecture...
...Industrial Aspects of the Problem of Understanding," Mr. E. D. Smith, Emerson A. Social Ethics...
...feminist problem was dropped when Rev. T. T. Shields of Toronto, Canada, President of the Bible Union, launched into an attack on John D. Rockefeller Jr. He charged Mr. Rockefeller and his pastor, Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, with trying to transform the Northern Baptist Convention into "the Religious Department of the Standard Oil Co." All of which was promptly denied by Mr. Rockefeller through...
...problem," said Commander MacMillan speaking of Polar discovering expeditions, "is not in getting to the North Pole, but in knowing you are there if you get there. I am certain that one or two explorers have passed over the extreme top of the world, but they have no way to prove it. The only exact way of locating the Pole is by a careful study of the sun, the moon and the stars, in their relationship with each other, but since the moon and stars cannot be seen in summer when explorations can be made, no one has yet found...