Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...problem no longer to Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, the German Navy, and Russian and Norwegian authorities, the freighter City of Flint was safe home in Baltimore at week's end. With three months' pay and a bonus in their shoregoing pants, safe were her seamen in "Mae's Tavern," "Joe's Place" and the "Jolly Spot." Home was the sailor, with yarns to tell...
...population to an all-time low of 72. Prohibition did it, says Dr. Dayton. By 1921, when bootlegging had begun, admissions rose to 77; the following year they climbed to 82. Dr. Dayton, who firmly believes that liquor makes lunatics, accuses psychiatrists of neglecting this important problem...
...Main problem of this picture, which Robert Sherwood scripted from his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, is the same as the play's: how to create a tragic mood when almost nothing tragic happens. As in the play, Scripter Sherwood tries to turn the trick with a series of biographical episodes, Lincoln's easygoing frontier life, the death of Ann Rutledge, his unhappy marriage, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, his election. As in the play, Actor Raymond Massey turns the trick for him. But there are also shrewd playwrighting touches: reluctant Mr. Lincoln symbolically taken in charge by the soldiers...
...other good qualities, it is one that James Still seems to have achieved. Born 30 years ago in the hills of Alabama, brought up in Tennessee, educated at Vanderbilt, Still has written some modest but unmistakable poetry (Hounds on the Mountain). River of Earth is his first novel. The problem it fairly solves is that faced by many Southern novelists: how to be sectional without being affected. The horizon in River of Earth is limited to Hardin County, Kentucky, simply by being a child's horizon, the story of what Brackstone Baldridge's boy saw and heard when...
There is, nonetheless, a skeleton in the closet: it is social democracy. Here is a problem far more perplexing than any arising from the union. Would there be serious consequences from the assignment of one group of students to wait on another? How real is Harvard democracy? They are questions to be raised, not answered now. Doubtless they are bothering both University Hall and the Student Council committee. To conclude that all would be perfectly tranquil is certainly unrealistic; to say that Harvard would be divided into social castes is to subscribe wholeheartedly to New Haven versions of Harvard life...