Word: puzzlers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...effort to reduce expenses without damaging education and instruction" will be a puzzler for every department of the University. Since salaries are to remain intact, the ten per cent economics will have to come mainly in administrative expenses: heat, light, telephones, secretarial service, and other non-teaching activities; and in part from not filling vacancies caused by death or the draft. "Unessential" services will have to be shorn off. Senior Faculty members will have to curtail their writing and research in order to take over teaching duties of the younger men called upon for government service. It is a question...
...there are two other related problems which must receive consideration eventually. One is the question of whether reducing the price of the Red Book for all Freshmen would not be at least as great a benefit as increasing scholarship aid for a given class. The other is a puzzler for this year's Smoker Committee-how to avoid the usual mob of upperclassmen which prevents the Smoker from being of, by, and for the Freshmen...
...Thuggee on the blacked-out Edwardic, Britain-bound with munitions and nine passengers. Lying doggo in a remote cabin, Sir Henry Merrivale, of Intelligence, hears of it by accident, snorts his way below to ponder a lady's corpse, a vanished Frenchman and duplicate thumbprints. First-rate puzzler...
National Contesters includes housewives, doctors, lawyers, merchants and a great many printers. Printers have to watch their spelling, often consult dictionaries, which eventually leads them to try their hand at slogans. Peculiar is the caste system of the contest business. A crossword puzzler looks down on jinglers, but slogan-makers lord it over...
Almost 50 years ago, in a tiny hill town of Ohio's Belmont County, young Dr. Frederick Archimedes Korell was confronted with a medical puzzler: a strange new children's disease. Its symptoms: swollen glands, high fever, sore throat, coughing, abdominal pains. He was fresh from medical school and he had never heard of the disease. He treated the symptoms separately, and the children all recovered...