Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course it's all an old story for Coach Lamar, who every year runs into the same problem of having to build some sort of a Freshman football team in little more than a week. But this season the task looks tougher than over...
Here's how it will be done: each program will be prepared by an individual working group, consisting of students plus at least one faculty adviser whose speciality is that particular field. A dramatic presentation of the problem at hand will be broadcast one week, followed by a round table discussion of the problem by qualified exports the next. Planned so far are programs on city planning, education, housing, juvenile delinquency, and the Fair Employment Practices Commission...
...deepest of these problems was at the bottom of the conflict at Amsterdam -the problem of the Nature and Destiny of Man. Every religion divides along two poles. For the one, man is a worm. For the other, man is "a little lower than the angels...
...attended its convention in Portland, Ore., clucked in horror as plump, 65-year-old Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, its perennial president, reported: "This is a time of overpowering, universal and revolting drunkenness among women of all ages, weights and social positions . . . Among the 3,750,000 chronic alcoholics and problem drinkers in the U.S., more than 680,000 are women...
...past year the Journal ran the Stimson memoirs, the Stilwell diary, the Robert Capa-John Steinbeck Russian essay, a presidential series by Roger Butterfield, articles on bad housing, "The Alcoholic and His Women," and "Why Do Women Cry." By male tastes (which do not matter to the Journal), its "problem" fiction is below the standard of its articles -but it is not for want of hunting for new authors or problems. The Journal took twelve first stories (at a minimum of $750) by budding writers. Its fiction, food and architecture displays are decorated with wide-open, four-color layouts that...