Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...which the draughtsman with infinite pains and difficulty reproduced upon wood the work of the painter, was soon replaced by the art of photographing directly upon the wood, and skilful artists began to take the place of the draughtsman. Three things were necessary to lift engraving from the difficult, expensive and unsatisfactory early process to that high position as an art which it has held for many years. These were, first, an artist, then an engraver, and last a magazine with taste and intelligence to reproduce the work on a printed page. The first two of these requisites were found...
...contagious diseases have characteristic beginning symptoms. Hence it is difficult to recognize such diseases the first day or two, and to take proper precautions with reference to them. Many individuals are, therefore, unwittingly exposed, and the spread of disease in this way may be very rapid and extensive...
...policy of exclusion is impracticable. (1) Past legislation has failed. (2) Enforcement is too difficult. (3) It is against the wishes of a majority of the people...
...writer is evidently absolutely ignorant of the rule that no man can begin a career on any athletic team till he has passed a physical examination by the proper authorities. In the article the writer says, "One would presume that before a young man was allowed to pursue the difficult and perilous occupation of a record breaker, the proper authorities would ascertain whether he was constituted for such trying and critical work." Then the writer gives an awful picture of "the best all-round athlete that ever graduated from the Heminway Gymnasium," who "fell dead on the Harvard campus from...
...only a link in the chain of artists he is doing well. The experience of one school is the inheritance of another, and no great school has refused to borrow from another. What, then, the Renaissance has taught us, and especially what it has taught us on so difficult a part of art as mural painting, should be adopted and utilized by American artists...