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Word: problem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radio that could transmit signals beneath the water's surface was sterner. To receive messages in World War II, subs had to surface or poke up the antenna-bearing periscope and risk detection. Last week word leaked that the U.S. Navy has whipped this underwater communications problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Waves Under the Sea | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

After being reluctant about taking up the problem at all, the United Nations General Assembly has reluctantly voted a mild, almost anemic resolution condemning--no, not even condemning--expressing "grave concern" over "reported" repressions in Tibet. The Communist Chinese, chastened by this stinging rebuke, will no doubt immediately withdraw their forces, and the bespectacled Dalai Lama will soon make a triumphal re-entry into Lhasa, with Life magazine on the scene to cover the event with the same breathless fervor it devoted to his "miraculous escape...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Reluctant Combatants | 10/24/1959 | See Source »

...says that "the Algerian resolution is acceptable in so far as it is a protest against certain acts of the French government," but claims that it goes beyond the role of "students as students" when it advocates a specific political solution, the independence of Algeria, since the stu- dent problem is only a small part of the whole problem of Algeria...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: NSA Rethinks Role of 'Students as Students' | 10/23/1959 | See Source »

...group also feels that creating a permanent Student Council committee on NSA will arouse student discussion of the issues to be taken up at the Congress and thereby help to solve the problem of representation. It is also suggested that the Council hold a meeting every spring to provide a sounding board for student opinion on these topics...

Author: By Mark H. Alcott, | Title: Report Urges New NSA Unit | 10/23/1959 | See Source »

...Crimson should not experience its customary difficulty in scoring against a fairly weak Green defense. On the other hand, holding the Indians scoreless or nearly so will present something of a problem. A varsity victory is by no means certain...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Soccer Varsity Encounters Tough Indian Squad Today | 10/23/1959 | See Source »

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