Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regard to this test on the related fields that most of the criticisms have arisen. Honors men particularly find it difficult at the conclusion of a year in, which they have had to write a thesis and study a great deal in a special field to cover all the work of their own department not to mention the "related" ones. Review can at best be of a cursory nature; tutorial work can be of little help where the tutor is a specialist in another department and feels that most of the time must be spent in the particular subject...
Were it not for the Federal Reserve Law and the Prohibition Amendment, it would be difficult to vision the seriousness of what might be hap- pening at the present time...
...would have gone up to the sea with the Rhine under my arm. But Germans, not Frenchmen, were living on the Rhine territory. If we had begun any annexing, other powers would have followed our example. It is easy to make war. It is more difficult to keep territories than to conquer them...
Today in Europe the young Aguilars are famed. Ezequiel is the eldest although it would be difficult to tell, so much alike are they with small sleek heads, black pop eyes. But Ezequiel is the leader, plays the first lute, shows his authority by wearing wherever he goes a flowing Spanish capa...
...Yale game a week ago Saturday, but it had nothing on the Boston College-Holy Cross affair played the day before yesterday in Fenway Park, the regular domicile of the tail-end Red Sox. There was a freezing blast sweeping the length of the gridiron which made it extremely difficult for the players to hold on to the ball and for the spectators to convince themselves that they really gave a hoot who won the game. The specs got pretty badly fooled by the weather conditions, good seats in the middle of the field being easily obtainable in pairs...