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Word: problems (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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After school, Miss Mowrey must grade papers, prepare for the next day's schoolwork, help her sister with the housework, find time to visit the parents of problem students. She rarely sees a movie, does practically no reading beyond what is required for her class work, and is annoyed to find herself slipping out of touch with the news. She climbs into bed each night exhausted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Case in Point | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

...Evangeline to leave her phenomenally successful post as Commander in the U.S., a group of potent U.S. supporters of the Army sent a turkey-talking cable to the international headquarters in England. Bramwell was forced to retreat, and Evangeline stayed in the U.S. But General Bramwell was still a problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Little Eva | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

...intense preoccupation with the female bosom (in one scene, Miss Harlow's neckline swooped almost to the navel). But it was in The Outlaw that his interest reached its fullest flower. In the flogging scene, when the bosom movement seemed unsatisfactory, Hughes decided that it was an engineering problem, called for his drawing board, designed a new brassiere for his star, Jane Russell. Thereafter the scene was shot to his entire liking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Mechanical Man | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

...need Thy help to do something about the world's true problems-the problem of lying, which is called propaganda; the problem of selfishness, which is called self-interest; the problem of greed, which is often called profit; the problem of license, disguising itself as liberty; the problem of lust, masquerading as love; the problem of materialism, the hook which is baited with security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ends & Means | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

...afraid poor Evelyn has begun to take the problem of evil seriously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Knife in the Jocular Vein | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

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