Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...privy"). She judged planned private camps for Okies to be somewhat better, Government camps, with sheet-metal huts and neatly ordered community laundries, recreation halls and self-governing councils, best of all. But in none of these stopgaps, said she, lay a solution to California's problem ("We must get these people back on land that they own"). A reporter asked whether, having seen the Okies, she thought that Novelist John Steinbeck had exaggerated. "I have never believed that The Grapes of Wrath was exaggerated," said Eleanor Roosevelt...
...last year that the Olympic trials would give the country a chance to discover the nation's best crew, but with the war the Olympics became less and less a probability until they became absolutely impossible, and the hopes were dashed down. Now the only way to solve the problem seems to be to have an East-West race...
...statement of what the St. John's graduate should be; "He will be able to think clearly and imaginatively, to read even difficult material with understanding and delight, to write well and to the purpose. For four years he will have consorted with great minds and shared their problems with growing understanding. He will be able to distinguish sharply between what he knows and what is merely his opinion. From his constant association with the first-rate, he will have acquired a distaste for the intellectually cheap and tawdry; but he will have learned to discover meaning in things that...
...fixed character. In the case of the first boat the lineup is pretty much the same as last year at Henley. Of course Bill Rowe had turned over the stroke position to Jack Wilson then, and Jack still makes the pace. However, the number three position is becoming a problem, beng the spot vacated by Dud Talbot last year...
...Nieman Fellows, engaged in such a profession as they are, cannot but be interested in social, political, and economic problems. It is these problems that they analyze in their everyday work. To Harvard's attempt to see these issues from as wide a viewpoint as possible, the Fellows from the South have contributed a great deal. President Roosevelt has called the South "the nation's No. 1 economic problem," but Harvard has learned from its Southern guests that many of the South's problems are also the nation's, and that it does not help matters to blame all evils...