Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Dick Harlow sent his "A" team against the "B" for the first time this fall in a scrimmage highlighted by the switching of running guard Dick Pfister to right tackle. Tackle continues to be the number one problem child for the Crimson eleven, and Pfister may be able to help plug...
...problem is largely naval. Overland routes through this whole territory are utterly impassable. Formidable mountain ranges tumble down from the Himalayas. Thick jungles, swampy lowlands, torrential rivers, horrible rains, clouds of malarial mosquitoes-all make land attack out of the question. Furthermore, the problem narrows down for practical purposes to one of covering distances between naval bases (marked on the map by the flags of the nations to which they belong) and storming of a handful of coastal towns: Balikpapan, Tarakan, Batavia, Surabaya, Macassar, Singapore and a few others...
...problem of distances can be judged by the fact that if a map of the U. S. were superimposed on the map overleaf it would just about cover the area shown. Roughly Rangoon would correspond to Seattle, Guam to Boston, Sumatra to Southern California, and Florida to New Guinea. The distance from the Japanese naval base on Hainan to the heart of Borneo approximates the air distance from Fargo, N. Dak. to New Orleans, and the distance from Singapore to Manila that from Salt Lake City to Detroit...
...prepare them for that career, President Shuster plans to start an institute of child psychology, teach his girls homemaking, dietetics, self-grooming. His toughest problem: how to deal with patrioteers' attacks on Hunter girls for their "radicalism."* His policy: let the girls have their say. "New York students," said he, "are the most conservative group of young people...
Despite many a national survey, the U. S. Youth Problem is still far from a national solution. Last week North Carolina tackled a more modest job: some of the problems of youth in North Carolina...