Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coach E. A. Wachter of the University basketball team stated that there were no drastic changes in the rules which are being interpreted tonight. The changes that have been made since last year are mainly those of emphasis. In the case of charging, especially, the classes dealing with the problem have been reworded so as to shift part of the cause penalty from the defensive to the offensive player...
Coach Stubbs is faced with the problem of getting a team conditioned by December 12 when the opening game of the season with M. I. T. will take place. Since the team will practice only on Tuesdays and Thursdays this leaves only two more pre-game sessions...
...child indulges in. No one would think of calling a child a hypocrite because he dresses up as a cowboy or a policeman. Other peoples are, in other respects, just as childlike and naïve in their psychology as the Americans are about Prohibition. For example, consider the problem of why Englishmen wear silk hats. (They still do.) It is apparent to the meanest intelligence that a silk hat, considered as a hat, is a poor and ridiculous thing. It is uncomfortable, it is ugly, it is easily damaged by the elements against which it is supposed...
Said he: "One will be able to speak of a real solution of the Reparations problem only if it does not exceed Germany's economic capacity-in other words, if it enables us to fulfil our obligations by our own power and without endangering the standard of life of our people...
...acute as the ticker problem was the telephone congestion. Most stock market orders pass through the "Hanover" exchange. On Friday, harried operators handled between 85,000 and 100,000 calls an hour. Telephone officials planned to divide the burden between lower Manhattan's seven other exchanges...