Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have forwarded your letters to an organization which is very active in helping to solve the problem of the displaced person: The United Service for New Americans, Inc. Another such organization is the Catholic Committee for Refugees, which was responsible for putting Farmer Rhinehart in touch with the Zielezinskis...
Suppose, for example, that tomorrow the U.S., Britain and France should sit down with Russia to talk about the German problem. The U.S. would insist (rightly) that Germany must be rehabilitated for the sake of Europe. The Russians would promptly try to divide the West by playing on the French (and others') fear of a strong Germany. With Western Union in its present inert state, the Russians would probably succeed in this maneuver...
...Psychologically, the British stiff upper lip is as imperturbable as ever; mathematically, their plans don't yet add up. But their problem is less a mathematical equation than it is a human one. Sir Stafford Cripps, who I had always supposed was an archangel of austerity, turned out to be a warm, genial, thoroughly pleasant personality, with plenty of humor - and goodness knows, Britain's terrific problems will have to be solved in human terms, not just mathematical ones...
...This will certainly surprise the students, parents, teachers, administrators who have had anything to do with our educational system. To the disinterested observer, the American educational system looks like a gigantic playroom, designed to keep the young out of worse places until they can go to work." ¶ "The problem of higher education in America is not the problem of quantity. Whatever our shortcomings in this regard, we have a higher proportion of our young people in higher education than any country I can think of; and we certainly have more teachers and more square feet per student in bigger...
...strains of infantile paralysis capable of producing clinical symptoms, but we do not know how closely related these virus strains are, or, indeed, if they are biologically related at all. We do not know whether special measures of prevention or treatment are necessary for each individual type. Until this problem is solved, there can be no certain prevention or cure...