Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief problem at the beginning of the year was the construction of a good line and in this respect line-coach R. J. Dunne in his second year of service saw his efforts bear fruit in what proved to be one of Harvard's most powerful forward walls...
...Problem. What he is up against is an official figure of 1,132,300 men out of work as of May 27, 1929, an increase in a fortnight of more than 27,000 unemployed...
Cheered by the news of an approaching settlement of Mexico's religious problem. General Goroztieta had summoned his followers to the Hacienda Ibarra, had advised them to disband. Later he heard mass and joined the irreconcilable remnant of his army...
Diffident hintings from both Mexican government and Catholic hierarchy have suggested many points of possible compromise in the vexed problem of Mexico's religious laws (TIME, May 13, et seq.) Trustworthy seemed the report that the Vatican had agreed to recognize government ownership of Church property if the Church were made official guardian of the same...
Getting to the moon was the object of Herr Oberth's researches. The Society considered that he had actually made progress toward ''practical interstellar navigation." The problem begins, and so far has ended, with the forces by which Earth clutches that which is its own. To escape the pull of gravity, an earthborn body would have to take off at terrific speed. Outside the earthly atmosphere, interstellar gases are so rare that they would afford no traction for an airplane's propellor, no buoyance for wings. Most scientists with lunar leanings have therefore pondered shooting themselves...