Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great economic problem facing the State is to increase the efficiency of industry to a point at which the peasant can be supplied with goods at a price which he can pay. The failure of "pure" Communism to achieve this end gave rise to the "heretical" capitalistic...
...committees, on staffs, on patient registers, to hospital work. And, as there is no anger like that of the hampered welldoer, each wanted to speak forth on the injur ies to his intentions. Some criticisms and suggestions: Trustees. "They are often woe fully ignorant of even the pressing problems of their institutions. They employ officers and condone methods which they never would tolerate in their own enterprises. They inter fere in the conduct of business and meddle in professional matters and still wonder why their hospitals do not function efficiently and why they have difficulty in securing the right type...
Xray. "The centre of the stage in all questions concerning the treatment of cancer is occupied by the still unsolved problem of the action of X-rays on normal and malignant the cells. Until this problem has been cleared up from the theoretical point of view I believe that the practical work of treating cancers by X-rays cannot be improved."-Robert Bierich of Hamburg...
Quacks. "Recently the wide use of physical therapeutic methods by a group of more or less illiterate healers has unfortunately brought the problem into prominence again. The devotees of these cults frequently massage tumors in order to drive the lump away. In this they are often too successful. Patients now come into our hospitals with extraordinary distribution of tumor cells following such massage and manipulation. The victims are practically all of them beyond help, owing to the extensive distribution about the body of the embolic particles."-Francis Carter Wood of Manhattan...
...work of the forward line was even less satisfactory than that of the backs. The linemen were admittedly pitted against an unusually powerful set of forwards and were faced in their first game with the problem of solving a shifting method of attack which changed constantly. Turner's loss was felt heavily in the center of the line as was Crosby's in the back field. Coach Horween made numerous substitutions in the line, Symonds, Steward, Goodwin, and Meadows, all new men seeing considerable service. Of these reserves, Meadows, the Sophomore end, showed the most promise...