Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...vast impatience of many U. S. citizens, the bumbling House last week thus took up the problem of Finnish aid, in exactly the same manner and tempo in which the bumbling Senate had passed it, 49-27. The bumbling House Banking & Currency Committee began hearings. As in the Senate, no one seemed to feel that civilization (in the shape of Finland) was approaching the zero-hour. Representatives, who are told almost daily by lobbyists, constituents and each other that civilization is imperiled unless such-&-such a bill passes, went on yawning, grooming their noses, reading the comics. Their equanimity drove...
...Stimson, who in turn thinks highly of Secretary of State Hull. Dewey's slugs at the New Deal are sudden, savage, singleminded, are concentrated mostly on the New Deal's failure to put the unemployed to work. Single-minded is his answer to the U. S. economic problem: the New Deal belief that the U. S. productive plant has been overbuilt leads naturally to the belief that the new adventures, the new plants, the new industries, are unnecessary. The aspirations that would normally flower are frustrated...
...problem was to determine the exact date of this prehistoric civilization. It was for this purpose that the Harvard geologists were summoned. As Bryan explains, "It is possible to relate the culture layer in which the relies were found to a definite, but inconspicuous, geologic event, the formation of the unusual Lindenmeier Valley...
...point of degeneracy" advanced by such an eminent authority on the dance as one of Harvard's professor of Sociology, we ask how one can worry about sex at a distance of six feet when most of the brain space is being devoted to the quite difficult problem of keeping one's balance. Jitterbugging is hard work--vaguely like a track meet. Seems to me that the dreamy-eyed couples floating along to Guy Lombardo's dulcet strains have much more opportunity for sex, unadulterated, than does the genus jitterbug...
...Then there was the Red Book picture with that particularly and characteristically harried Freshman look about it. And finally there was the wishfully comic picture in which he was perched on the famous Yale fence immortalized by Professor Hooton's ape pictures. Obviously, there was no solution of the problem to be found here. Finally Vag got his brilliant idea, and immediately swung into action...