Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...even this failed to iron out all of the family complication. Helenius had an unmarried sister who insisted that she was not a Helenius and not a Trygg. So far as she was concerned there seemed to be no way of solving the problem except to discard the two family names and limit her name to Seppala. This was done...
Report. Evenly divided between discussion of Fascists and Communists, made up of 15,000 well-chosen words, the report had not a line to justify the hell & damnation that preceded it. It began: "Every modern democratic nation is confronted by two pressing problems. The first is the preservation of the constitutional liberties which their people have gained through the years of struggle, the second is the problem of adjusting their economic life to the difficulties of the machine age. . . ." Although rival groups seek power and influence by exploiting economic distress, attempting to undermine democracy, main problem in combating them...
Report. Evenly divided between discussion of Fascists and Communists, made up of 15,000 well-chosen words, the report had not a line to justify the hell & damnation that preceded it. It began: "Every modern democratic nation is confronted by two pressing problems. The first is the preservation of the constitutional liberties which their people have gained through the years of struggle, the second is the problem of adjusting their economic life to the difficulties of the machine age. . . ." Although rival groups seek power and influence by exploiting economic distress, attempting to undermine democracy, main problem in combating them...
...Royal Danieli Hotel in Venice, around the corner from the famed Piazza di San Marco, Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano and Hungarian Foreign Minister Count Stephan Csáky held a two-day conference to discuss the Balkan-Russian problem. From Venice sickly Count Csáky was scheduled to go for a rest to San Remo. Instead, he suddenly returned to Budapest. From there it was reported that the Csáky-Ciano talks had developed into a serious discussion of a full-fledged Hungarian-Italian defensive alliance against not only Soviet Russia but Nazi Germany, Italy...
Author Steinbeck's big problem in writing Of Mice and Men was to make U. S. lower depths realistic without making his novel drab. Even harder was to make his mangy bottom-dogs plausible and pathetic without making George and Lennie's relationship grotesque or gooey. Author Steinbeck made loneliness the common human factor of all his bindle stiffs, made their loneliness as vast as the western mountains they work among, but made them express it only in two-syllable language as mean, hard and sometimes as foul as their semisavage existence. Result...