Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...years St. Louis has had a smoke problem. It has had a smoke commissioner ever since Lee surrendered. And it still has smoke-on windless winter days aviators flying toward the city see, rising over the skyscrapers and chimneys, a vast bulging black parachute of mixed fog and soot that blots out the world below. Suburbanites driving to work on sunny mornings switch on their car lights as they approach the business district and drive into what looks like a gigantic rusty iron wall rising from the pavement to the sky-the smoke that lies thick and russet-green under...
...GOPresidential scramble, big problem of Messrs. Arthur Vandenberg and Robert Taft has been not to let young Thomas Dewey get too far ahead. For many a week Candidates Taft & Vandenberg have relied comfortably on their advisers' assurance that "Buster" Dewey was a natural for the Vice-Presidency, was not a serious contender...
...schedule of lectures will be: March 11, "God and Greek Philosophy;" March 15, "God and Christian Philosophy;" March 18, "God and Modern Philosophy:" and March 22. "Contemporary Thought and the Problem of God." The lectures will be in Emerson Hall D. Harvard Yard, at 4:30 o'clock...
...twilight of academic generality the area plan emerges as a concrete problem which must be faced. For the concentration-distribution fight is more than a University Hall bicker about the technical requirements for a degree; it is a questioning of the very nature of the peculiar concoction known as a "liberal education." Harvard is not merely investigating itself; it is groping for the function and meaning of the whole educational process...
...written, The Other Germany, by the son and daughter of Thomas Mann, is valuable as a discussion of important elements in Germany and in the German character which Europe's rebuilders will have to face. Like Rauschning, the Manns are weak on analysis of the tremendous economic problem that will arise if the totalitarian state is defeated. But their book is a strong and pertinent reminder of the cultural resilience and political talent Germany displayed under the Weimar Republic (whose constitution was as liberal a one as Europe had ever seen). If Europe after World...