Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enough? On the night he accepted his nomination Tom Dewey showed his own realization that more was needed. Said he: "Our people yearn to move to higher ground, to find a common purpose in the finer things which unite us ... The unity we seek is more than material. Our problem is within ourselves. We have found the means to blow the world, physically, apart. Spiritually, we have yet to find the means to put together the world's broken pieces, to bind up its wounds, to make a good society, a community of men of good will that fits...
...Give a scientist a problem, any problem, and he is happy. During the war it was the problem of killing people in greater numbers than ever before. The scientists . . . came up with schemes that military men never dreamed...
...million words a day in here," said a Times executive. "Not counting what is duplicated, we have around 600 columns of news to trim down. The editing has to be for length and for accuracy; we can't stop to rewrite many stories." Readability, he added, "is a problem we still have to solve...
Elementary. In New London, Conn., the Griswold Country Club solved the lost-golfball problem: it hired a pack of pointers and English setters and treated the balls with pheasant scent...
Despite much of this sort of discipline, embarkation was a staggering problem. Boats rowed into the darkness and were never seen again. In the heavy ground swell, towropes parted and snapped like whips. Propellers came to a dead stop, fouled by wire, wreckage and "human obstruction" (corpses...