Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...previously carried one-third of Britain's overseas trade, were mangled beyond use. It was further apparent that railroads, which in default of London's docks would have to carry goods to & from other ports, were occasionally badly snarled. Disease and evacuation would not help this communication problem. Many of London's 14,000 factories, which before the war accounted for one-fifth of Britain's total output and employed one-quarter of her 7,500,000 workers, were knocked out. Within the city water mains were so often broken that the London Metropolitan Water Board...
...Jewish problem was solved through the simple arrangement of ghettos, the idea of a Jewish reservation, along with a semi-autonomous Polish State, having been abandoned. Jews over 10 were required to wear a white arm band four inches wide bearing a blue Star of David. Two years of labor service were obligatory for all male Jews...
...term Labor is substituted for Huguenots, the term Big Business for the big Catholic nobles, U. S. readers will have little trouble understanding the age immediately following the death of Henri IV. Then, as in France before the Nazi invasion, the problem was to save a nation torn between two powerful internal forces whose factional interests meant more to them than France. The man who forced unity upon these conflicting groups and saved France was Armand Jean du Plessis Cardinal Richelieu. His career is the greatest paradox in paradoxical French politics. A prince of the church, Richelieu revived and carried...
...conclusion is that the tenure problem, precipitated by the dismissal of a number of popular teachers during the past few years, was not caused solely by a shrinking budget or by misguided publicity seekers, but by administrative incompetency, which he lays alive to what is going on," Ross writes, "and it appears unlikely that mass dismissals can recur. The demoralization among the younger men has not been alleviated, however. Frankly and simon President Conant's doorstep...
...wondering uncertainly about their future. But on this September morning, this registration day, we are not going to discuss the things Seniors are worrying about. There will be much talk of them later on. Today, this weekend, the College is mainly concerned with you Freshmen, and your relatively easy problem of adjustment. You are welcome at Harvard, and after a short time you will feel at home here. It won't take you long to find out what the next four years will be like...