Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...look good on a college campus, but alumni seldom think so. They want the new buildings they finance to look just like the old ones for sentiment as well as for the sake of architectural harmony. Florida's University of Miami is trying to solve the architectural problem by a clean break with its not-so-distant (1925) past: it is building an all-modern school on a new campus...
Fantasy Island. Next morning examiners handed out booklets describing "Fantasy Island," a nonexistent spot 400 miles north of Australia, inhabited jointly by British and Dutch. Each candidate had to face examiners and fellow candidates and answer how he would react to hypothetical administrative problems. No. 17's problem, as governor of Fantasy Island: Jewish D.P.s were being ostracized by their neighbors on the island; should he allow them to set up an all-Jewish community in an area already occupied by Italians? Nervously, No. 17 argued yes. The group voted him down ("It would lead to bloodshed"), but examiners...
...planes are pushed by the reaction of the blast of hot gas shooting out the tail pipe. The present problem is that this blast is speeding much too fast-at about 1,300 m.p.h. Even when the plane is flying at 600 m.p.h., the blast is shooting backward in still air at 700 (1,300 minus 600) m.p.h. The engine is still wasting too much energy merely stirring up the air. To approach the normal propulsive efficiency of a propeller plane, a jet plane would have to fly faster than sound. But one arresting compensation-for the jets-is that...
...achieve an airplane that will have range and load-carrying ability above Mach i is an extremely difficult problem. Such a plane must be several planes in one. It must take off and land at a practical speed and fly at first below Mach i. It must pass through the dangerous transonic band without being thrown out of control or damaged by buffeting. Then it must deal with the new air behavior and enormous drag encountered above Mach...
...four thrillers, all of which have been made into profitable and pulse-racing movies. But, unlike other thrillers of the gut & gat school, his "entertainments," as he calls them (in contrast to his serious novels), are not just brisk episodes of irrelevant evil. They are haunted by a problem-the plight of the human soul benighted in the back alleys of evil. For in the thriller, Graham Greene has found a literary form capable of embodying not only the violence that characterizes modern life, but the insidious violence of the modern soul from which it springs...