Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...second half Harvard got the ball on downs on Brown's thirty yard line, and a short gain by Kernan took it to the twenty-five yard line. Putnam then got around left end and by fast running took the ball over the line. Lawrence kicked a difficult goal. After the kick-off the play was even for several minutes. Finally Harvard got the ball in mid-field on a short punt. On the next play Kernan circled right end and with Stillman's interference ran thirty-five yards to the twenty yard line. Stillman gained ten yards through...
...office for they would be discovered if they did. In the central office itself all political and social tendencies are represented and the statistical editors work in an atmosphere of free criticism of each other and of their chief. From the unscientific data of the part it has been difficult to secure scientific conclusions, and if there have been faults it has not been through lack of integrity. For honesty, official statistics both Federal and State can be absolutely trusted...
...fall into one or more of the fatal errors enumerated above. The proper method of constructing a schedule is to show the wages paid to each employee through a period of years, but here the statistician is confronted with serious problems. The number of people employed is always difficult to find; and even when that is done he may be unable to compute the duration of the labor because the time varies with different industries, and in different departments of the same industry. Or it may be that wages have been paid to a group of laborers for work...
...problem for the statistician is a difficult one. He must use no a priori methods but must analyze accurately a great mass of facts and give the public results that can be depended upon...
...practice began on Monday, Sept. 17, forty-five candidates came out and within a week the squad numbered eighty men. To select a team from so many candidates and to round it into condition soon enough to win the two important games with Pennsylvania and Yale seemed a very difficult takes. The coaches decided at once to bring about the development of the team very slowly and gradually, and not to vary this policy in the slightest degree. For this reason the elementary practice at starting, running and tackling the dummy was kept up much longer than in former seasons...