Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...observe that you say in your letter that the representatives of the churches believe the solution of the coal problem lies in the adoption of the Royal Coal Commission's report (TIME, March 22, COMMONWEALTH) in its entirety. One of the most emphatic recommendations of the commission was that there should be no more subsidy...
...permit us to act urgently we ask you to give us greater freedom within the scope of our Constitution. It is only for dealing with the financial problem and food supplies that we ask these powers...
...attentive women: "It is an endeavor to answer the criticism that women's higher education does not have anything to do with her principal occupation* the family." We are not training cooks; we are not training welfare workers. We are giving women a liberal outlook upon the problem of the modern home in society. . . . 'Euthenics' is taken from the Greek, meaning 'good adjustment of life...
...solve this gritty problem a Citizens Play Jury was planned some years ago. A panel of several hundred jurors, intelligent citizens from all walks of life, was drawn. When a complaint was lodged a dozen of these jurors were delegated to judge the entertainment. If nine of the dozen found it, or any part of it, unfit, the whole or the part was to be withdrawn. The Producing Managers Association and the Actors Equity Association pledged themselves to enforce its decrees by withdrawing their plays or calling out their actors...
...determine history in advance, to follow up the fate of the civilization of Western Europe in the stages through which it has yet to pass. . . . Its narrower theme is an analysis of the decline of the culture of the West; but the goal is nothing less than the problem of civilization." Four cycles of civilization are traced-the Indian, the Antique (Greek), the Arabian and the Western (beginning with the Middle Ages). Each is divided into four seasons and studied, with Germanic thoroughness, in its religion, philosophy, art, science. The ultimate consideration is the evolution of the "morphology" of thought...