Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commented the New York Herald Tribune, which has previously taken a skeptical view of the committee's work: "The committee has turned up a great deal more than a 'red herring' . . . has been unearthing important facts . . . has thrown valuable light upon the Communist problem...
Brooks wrote: "About the crazy thing at Princeton-although I kept telling him I had to have a definite answer to our relations problem it was still that same maybe-mañana-perhaps-or this one little piece, until he just decided to drive away-well-the lack of anything broke up my mind...
...probably the same little man who awoke after a surgical operation, convinced that while under ether he had discovered the Final Solution to the central problem of existence. Unfortunately, the formula stubbornly eluded him. So he had himself put under ether a second time while stenographers stood by to record his revelation. It turned out to be a simple declarative sentence: "The entire universe is permeated with a strong odor of turpentine...
...general theme, "Man's Disorder and God's Design." If the churches can pull well together, they may reduce the disorder and implement the design. In a speech for delivery at Amsterdam on Aug. 24, Presbyterian Layman (and Republican Statesman) John Foster Dulles put the problem...
Humble's big problem now is shipping the oil to the mainland. At present, the oil is going in barges, but the company will probably build a 7½-mile platform-to-maimand pipeline for it. Oilmen think the Gulf pool should ultimately yield at least 4 billion barrels...