Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many a modern parent is beset by the problem of the daily newspaper. The parent cannot re-edit the newspaper-he must prohibit it for his children, in toto if at all. But classic literature can be edited-although as to how it shall be edited parents violently disagree. Discussion now turns chiefly on the following examples of Sunday School editing...
...British Members of Parliament perform in public as entertainingly as nimble-witted James Henry Thomas, Lord Privy Seal, Minister in charge of Britain's knottiest problem, Unemployment. Parliament's best contract bridge player, the Rt. Hon. Lord Privy Seal is also a notable after-dinner speaker, with a fund of Rabelaisian anecdote that is the envy of many. Last week, just returned from Canada, he spoke long and wittily at the 40th anniversary banquet of the British Printers' Union, and to him listened a colleague - Rt. Hon. Frederick Owen Roberts, Minister of Pensions. When it came time...
...problem is chiefly, confined to baseball and football. In the case of baseball there is, so far as I am aware, no legitimate ground on which can be defended, in the interest of the game itself, the practice of permitting the coaches to direct the play. In the case of football the problem is a little more difficult, because there is involved the question of withdrawing men who have been more or less injured in play and the substitution of others for them. This situation is thought, with a good deal of justice, to call at times for judgment more...
...quartet chosen to relieve the starting combination is faster and lighter, with the exception of the fullback. Wood, quarterback, Mays and Charles Devens, halfbacks, and Potter, fullback, comprise this group. The first three were luminaries on last year's Freshman eleven. With such material available, the problem of picking the most powerful backfield will be willingly left to those who have...
...surplus also rises! And with it appears once more the problem, not so perplexing apparently to those would easily and sanely dispose of it, but still of grave import to the body in whose final decision rests its ultimate destiny...