By adopting smaller and smaller elements of motion we only approach a solution of the
problem, but never reach it.
And so I pondered my
problem. I should not care to revisit all these fair places of the world except in the fashion I visited them before.
"The problems never were as large or as complex as they are right now," says J.
Since then the most conservative engineer will discuss the problem of transatlantic telephony.
Their interest in psychology is naturally centred in the relation of consciousness to its object, a
problem which, properly, belongs rather to theory of knowledge.
It would seem very strange, she thought, to have so few things to care for and she wondered how she would fill her time, she whose one
problem always had been how to achieve snatches of leisure.
The
problem, therefore, is this-- What thickness ought a cast-iron shell to have in order not to weight more than 20,000 pounds?
"Because it will be trying to solve the
problem called `the
problem of the three bodies,' for which the integral calculus is not yet far enough advanced."
Here she faced the financial and economic
problem of keeping house in a society where the cost of living rose faster than the wages of industry.
Consider the change that has come in twenty years in the discussion of the Negro
problem. Two or three decades ago social philosophers and statisticians and well-meaning philanthropists were still talking and writing about the deportation of the Negroes, or about their settlement within some restricted area, or about their settling in all parts of the Union, or about their decline through their neglect of their children, or about their rapid multiplication till they should expel the whites from the South--of every sort of nonsense under heaven.
The
problem is not how to guide the balloon, but how to take it up and down without expending the gas which is its strength, its life-blood, its soul, if I may use the expression."
Although Levin was engrossed at the moment by his ideas about the
problem of the land, he wondered, as he heard Sviazhsky: "What is there inside of him?
"A harder
problem occurs to me," I ventured to say: "and that is, how you're to get back again."
You are going to know all; and, without further preamble, I am going to place before your eyes the
problem of The Yellow Room as it was placed before the eyes of the entire world on the day following the enactment of the drama at the Chateau du Glandier.
As she sought her own rooms in Diana's Grove, she went over the whole subject again and again, always finding in the face of Lilla Watford a key to a
problem which puzzled her--the
problem of a way to turn Caswall's powers--his very existence--to aid her purpose.
