Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Both University and Freshman harriers were given a stiff workout at Soldiers Field yesterday. Coach Farrell intends to keep his men working nard all week in preparation for the difficult contests ahead. In spite of the defeats last Saturday, he expects to round both University and Freshman teams into form before the next race...
...Italian defeat is momentarily assuming graver proportions. With a hundred thousand prisoners taken, and most of the difficult mountain country already passed, there is a lively danger of the fall of Udine, and with this the capture of the Third Army across the Isonzo. Not since the days of the great German advance of August 1914, have the Allies been confronted with so serious a crisis. For should a catastrophe take place, then the way will lie open for the Germans to seize the rich Lombard plain, capture new ports for submarine bases on the Mediterranean, and even menace France...
...created is unusually complex; with the rates of transportation or coal production lowered and limited, an increase of wages and a shorter working day in many cases cannot be given. On the other hand, any walk out of the strikers would tie up our whole industrial organization, and make difficult or well-nigh impossible the exportations to our allies at the present hour...
...vexing questions which must come up sooner or later. It is for this reason that they deserve the serious consideration of the allies who would do well to make a similar trial at least in the solution of those problems which are not the less important because they are difficult or because they are seemingly subordinate to the questions of the moment...
...material was given as the reason. All but one of the 1916 regulars have entered some branch of the service. The dean stated that if the students wanted other branches of athletics they could have them, but as football practically supports the other sports it would be a difficult proposition to finance them this year...