Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...varsity nine has been considerably handicapped by the poor weather during the recess. The game with Andover was played on a chilly afternoon which made it difficult for the men to do themselves justice. The fielding was fairly good, but the batting was weak...
...Duties on sugar would render unnecessary an income tax, which would be both difficult of equitable assessment and expensive in collection...
...income tax is impracticable for the U. S. (a) The territory is too extended, the economic conditions are too diverse. (b) Business and incomes are too unstable. (c) The tax is difficult to collect. (d) The tax offers every inducement to fraud. (e) The federal tax would conflict with state and municipal taxes. (f) The bill as it stands has serious incongruities...
...divests himself of one personality and invests himself with the spirit of another, a sort of intellectual transmigration goes on. For Hamlet, Richard, Lear, or Iago, the true actor will not only change comparatively his voice and manner, but even his pronunciation. As Goethe says: "The really high and difficult part of art is the apprehension of what is individual, characteristic." The artist of experience, to whom is entrusted the proper means of expressing an emotion under given conditions and limitations, has so wide a choice of means that his task becomes almost an unconscious one, and his own instinct...
...difficult question of the expenses of the trip has to be met. Interest in cricket is so small here that games bring expenses and not receipts. Money for the trip therefore, if it is to be raised at all, must come directly from the students. Since the experiment is at present being made of uniting all athletic expenses under one management, we should depreciate, as out of sympathy with the spirit of this experiment, any ordinary door-to-door canvassing. The club ought to be as nearly as possible self-supporting, and to rely for funds rather on additions...