Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William Saroyan tackled much the same problem for the New York Times Magazine: "The theater is everything it ought to be right now, but it is more frequently other things...
...says that the average medical student is too poor to buy equipment and set himself up in a small town. He is also afraid of becoming "medically isolated," losing touch with the latest scientific methods. With 70 Kansas communities wanting doctors, Dr. Murphy feels that "isolation" is the real problem...
...surprise was Page One: to get attention, it was turned sideways. The result was confusing when the paper was spread out, but it was an eye-catcher. What's more, the horizontal Page One solved the problem of Mirror display on Los Angeles' downtown newsstands; racks available to the new afternoon daily were not designed for tabloids...
...atomic age, you can't be too careful about your neighbors. When an atomic pile is at work, it releases radioactive gases (invisible but deadly) that are sure to get around the neighborhood. This problem has been worrying Brookhaven National Laboratory, which is building a pile. It has also worried nervous Long Islanders who live near the laboratory...
...human brain to be supported, in spite of excessive gravitation, by throwing man into the quadruped position, greatly strengthening the four legs, and at the same time pushing the head far backwards so as to distribute its weight evenly between the fore and hind legs. But what of the problem of providing hands? . . . My only suggestion is that the nose might be greatly elongated into a trunk equipped with delicate grasping instruments like fingers. It would probably be desirable to have two trunks, if not three. The eyes . . . would have to be projected well forward . . . otherwise Homo Jovianus would...