Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Freshmen showed great improvement in their style of ball, gathering in five hits, and fielding consistently well, and at times brilliantly. In the out-field, Bond starred by making two difficult catches, while Kerr, at short, made one particularly skillful stop. The game was fast and well-played, with the exception of the Freshmen's one moment of weakness in the eighth inning...
...issue on the whole, however, is very satisfactory indeed and sets a standard of excellence in photographs which will be difficult to surpass...
...Noyes believes that Hamlet, with his intellectual ecstacy, was merely an apotheosis of Shakspere's former creation. Touchstone the Fool. Mr. Noyes maintained that it is difficult to conceive how critics could support the madness of Hamlet in the face of the fact that Shakspere himself ridicules other characters in the play for holding this same belief. In their swift, subtle phrases, modified by infinite jest and exquisite fancy, Hamlet and Touchstone can be identified as one and the same creation; and their further loyalty to love, and love for worship, seal their close relationship...
...first scheduled contest was between the second school four oars. Wind conditions made it difficult rowing and the shells were tossed about considerably. There was some confusion as to the finish line, for the stroke of the winning Noble and Greenough crew at the sound of the launch's warning whistle before going under the bridge apparently thought the race over and stopped altogether. He noticed his mistake at once, however, and in a final drive increased the lead, crossing the line one length and three-quarters in the lead. Brookline High School was second, with a lead...
...stand from the "Ladies of Boston." As the progress of this organization has not been equalled in a similar period of time by any military body of students in the United States, the Regiment has set for itself a standard, acknowledged by the community, which it will find both difficult and profitable to follow...