Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This section, which has since been attached to the Sixteenth Division, has rendered a great service in transporting wounded under difficult and often dangerous circumstances. On December 29, 1916, during a bombardment, the drivers showed conspicuous coolness and absolute devotion in succoring the wounded and conveying them to ambulances. Driver William Meadowcroft has given many proofs of calmness and coolness since the arrival of the division, often under perilous circumstances. He was wounded on December 29, during the bombardment...
Aside from other objections to this anti-propaganda is exceedingly difficult of practical definition. Perhaps a majority of Harvard professors urge upon their students views of moot questions and pet doctrines well within the dictionary meaning of the term--always indicating to the class, of course, that the matter is in the field of contention. All the speakers mentioned in the list above apparently were considered not propagandists. Neither was Captain Ian Hay Beith, whom the CRIMSON accurately referred to as having "been sent to this country by the British Government to explain Britain's part...
...players, but they had no coach and were handicapped by lack of practice. The Dartmouth forwards, however, with no attempt at combination play, had little trouble in maneuvering past the Tiger defence to score six times, while in the Harvard game Wylde was only called upon to make two difficult stops--14 in all--from the sticks of Princeton's vanquishers. In that game Coach Winsor's men gave an almost perfect exhibition of defensive hockey...
With a committee of fifteen prominent graduates representing all sections of the country the task of collecting this large fund ought not to be difficult. The plan of reaching every Harvard graduate of the last forty years will in itself lend great strength to the universal character of the appeal...
...have been questioned as to the amount necessary for Harvard's purposes. It is difficult to answer accurately such an inquiry. But those who have had the chance to give some study to the problem confidently believe that the sum of $10,000,000 indicates a figure that will adroitly serve Harvard's need, and that is well within the powers of her graduates to raise