Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Representatives of every college in the Boston area will congregate Saturday at Tufts for the ninth annual conference of the International Student Association to consider the problem of "The Exchange Student...
...more than a quarter of a billion dollars. The floods also brought swift and angry demands from Missouri Valley citizens for relief action by the penny-wise U. S. Congress which had cut river control funds early in 1947. So once again, Congress found itself faced with the perplexing problem of what to do with the Missouri River. The piecemeal sandbag method evidently wasn't working. But although President Truman called for an ambitious program of flood control, Congress didn't feel inclined to do much about...
...only on paper. The difference between them was that the Pick-Sloan plan was an amalgam of Federal and State agencies, and of compromises between proponents of irrigation and navigation, while the MVA would be an independent regional agency treating the river as a single problem transcending state boundaries...
...have or not to have, that is the question of compulsory News subscription. With this problem posed a second time within the month Radcliffe voters have ample opportunity to decide in their own minds whether they want their college to have a newspaper...
There are a number of solutions to the problem, none of which is in any way feasible. A crazed group of students, fresh from a rally, could destroy the thing, or perhaps a facade of red brick might be built around it, making it resemble Memorial Hall as much as possible. At any rate, it is important to keep one's television sets tuned and one's muskets ready. If the structure is viewed with alarm long and hard enough, it may fall down by itself...