Problem

Examples

• Now, finally and at last, there was no problem. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• There is no problem, Agustín said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The broad problem which he set himself was to provide handsome and practically indestructible detached houses, which could be taken by wage-earners at very moderate monthly rentals. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In the man's problem, the growing impossibility of early marriages is directly related to the business situation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The problem now was to get to the main ridge. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Food--that was the problem of those long tired years which dragged through the ages, when nearly everyone was a farmer, and a farmer with crude tools held in his hands. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Let us make for Mr. Morse Hudson, of the Kennington Road, and see if he can throw any light upon the problem. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• By the way, Sherlock, said he, I have had something quite after your own heart--a most singular problem--submitted to my judgment. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• He spoke to Gutenberg about it, and the latter studied the problem. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The gloomiest problem of this mysterious life was constantly before his eyes,--souls crushed and ruined, evil triumphant, and God silent. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Thus, broadly, the manufacturing end of the problem of introduction was cared for. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Here was a problem the like of which he had never encountered, and he felt rather than reasoned that he must meet it as a man and not as an ape. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• And when they don't, which is most of the time, we deny truth, falsify facts, and prefer the coddling of our theory to any deeper understanding of the real problem before us. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The long-sought-for problem of photographing in colours has in a measure been solved. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• To what problems, what issues, shall we give our attention? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But instead of narrowing the scope of politics, to avoid it, the only sensible thing to do is to invent methods which will allow needs and problems and group interests avenues into politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• And where are the open questions: the issues that everybody should consider, the problems that scientists should study? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It was a wonderful experience to have problems given me out of the intuitions of a great mind, based on enormous experience in practical work, and applying to new lines of progress. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Sooner or later I will solve all these problems which are now so tantalizing; but, come what may, one good thing is in store for me. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• One of the fundamental problems of education in and for a democratic society is set by the conflict of a nationalistic and a wider social aim. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• From the late summer of 1878 and to the fall of 1887 Edison was intensely busy on the electric light, electric railway, and other problems, and virtually gave no attention to the phonograph. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Bell studied this closely, discussed it with Wheatstone, and decided that he would devote himself to the problems of reproducing sounds mechanically. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• By far the most perplexing of these new manufacturing problems was the lamp. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• For there is a difference in the social scope of purposes and the social importance of problems. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The Earl was deeply interested, and encouraged the young American to persevere, but for the time Fulton left the steamboat to work out other problems. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The economic revolution has stimulated science by setting problems for solution, by producing greater intellectual respect for mechanical appliances. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Far better we may say that moral and social problems be left to private solution than that they be subjected to the clumsy method of the taboo. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The Problems Solved by Wood-working Inventors. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Pasteur's interest in these problems of fermentation wa s stimulated by one of the industries of Lille. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.

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