Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the Senate pothered over future crop production (see above), in other quarters of the capital the more realistic and troublesome problem of last year's wheat crop came forward and was met with a temporary solution. The 1928 crop was a bumper, close to 900 million bushels. On March 1, there still remained 355,563,000 bushels undisposed of, bulging in elevators and farm bins. It was the largest surplus since 1919, To make matters worse, the 1929 crop promises to surpass 1928's to run well above the 900 million bushel mark...
...professionalism is nearly as interesting as the topic of large-scale commercialization. The development of a plan of abolishing gate receipts would naturally be paralleled by a furthering of intramural athletics, and an ultimate goal of the least possible intercollegiate sport. If this were carried through to perfection, the problem of individual professionalism would be settled finally; for the spirit that moves anxious alumni to subscribe to funds that will aid so-and-so to stay in college a while longer and insure the Big Rival's defeat next fall, would hardly stir in an appeal for financial...
Other researches in progress deal with the problem of the safe landing of airplanes in thick weather an electric-wave technique which is new being used in an attack on the problem of cancer and the commercial application of electric oscillations as a means of standardizing the thickness of paper and rubber during their manufacture...
...deliberative bodies of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Just why, for instance, the playing of tennis is to be looked upon as unholy in the hours before 2 and after 6 o'clock of a Sunday afternoon, but is perfectly acceptable during the hours between is a particularly knotty theological problem. One might conjecture that the auspices were unfavorable to any other arrangement on the day when this regulation was enacted but there seems little other reason in a suspension of Sabbath for these afternoon hours...
...between 2 and 6 o'clock recognize the validity of daylight saving time? In the light of Einsteinian ideas of space-time, one hesitates to get into discussions on this sort of thing, and perhaps it would be wise to leave the matter with the mere positing of the problem. But the fact remains that time is not the same in one place as in another and that by the immutable statute of Massachusetts it is different at different times of the year. The manifold complexities of the problem indicate that it may be better to simplify the situation...