Word: problems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...told less than a year ago that in Spain they were fighting Bolshevism. If a conflict of interests between Italy and Germany-Russia were needed, it could readily be found in the Balkans, long one of Italy's special spheres of interests and now claimed as the special problem of the Communist and Nazi dictators...
However, if Herr Hitler should lose his temper over these dilatory tactics, if the presence of French troops on German soil should suddenly strike him as intolerable, if he should decide to solve a tactical problem by restoring order in The Netherlands, or protecting a minority in Luxembourg, then Sam would quickly be prevailed upon to pick up his musket...
Encephalitis. Less widespread than poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), but more destructive, is encephalitis. Young victims are often left stupid, shuffling, problem children, older ones drooling cripples, with muscular tremors, mumbling speech, double vision. Twelve years ago Chemist William John Matheson gave several hundred thousand dollars for a study of the disease. The fund has dwindled, for the Matheson Commission takes no money for treatment. Executive secretary of the Commission is capable Dr. Josephine Bicknell Neal who has investigated a remarkable Bulgarian belladonna treatment for chronic cases, long used in Europe. These tablets which Dr. Neal considers "by far the most effective...
...representing all the big churches save the Lutheran (in Alsace) and the Baptist, were reunited last year after a century of schism. Half of Général Boegner's 1,000 pastors have been mobilized, and 75 installed as chaplains. For French Protestantism, mobilization posed a problem: how to keep its churches running. M. Boegner solved it by recalling aged ministers from retirement, giving pulpit work to laymen and even to "some young ladies who have made profound studies in theology...
Thoreau's modern reputation is a testament to his Yankee stubbornness in sticking to his realistic problem. "I wanted," said Thoreau, "to drive life into a corner and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it ... of if it were sublime, to know it by experience. ... If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us go about our business...