Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Ever since "Poor Richard," first commissioner from the thirteen Colonies to the Court at Versailles, attained notoriety because of his threadbare clothes and shabby overcoat, the position of American Ambassador has been most difficult to hold. Utterly inadequate financial support and political dabbling at home have made our diplomatic corps the laughing stock of Europe. Affairs have reached such a pass that only a man with a private fortune can undertake to represent worthily the Government of the United States...
Those who have complained of our so called "soft" football schedule have overlooked the fact that this was an unusual year; a year when it was difficult to tell which opponents would be strong and which weak...
...matter how powerful its engines, has been able to leave the ground at flying speed of less than 45 to 70 miles an hour. A large field is, of course, necessary for this type of plane, and in the aerial mail service for example an open expanse is often difficult to find...
Even more than the charges against the meeting do we resent the implication that the University authorities only sanctioned the meeting because they were ignorant of its character. This seems a direct insinuation that the Harvard administration is unwilling to let both sides of a difficult question be studied here. But Harvard is fortunate in not being administered by Prussian autocrats...
...Dill, as the Poet, had a difficult part and in general he played it well. He was at his best in his soliloquy and at his worst in the conversation with Fame. Miss Jennison, as Fame, looked the part to perfection, and if her Cockney was somewhat variable, it was forgotten in contemplating the picture she made. Mr. Fawcett did the best bit of characterization in the piece. Only once did he over-act--at the moment when he says goodbye to the Poet...