Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...victory likely; for Donovan would have to be a double winner, and this is exceedingly improbable, seeing the way that Nicky Kerr and Jim Pender are going in the dash. So that leaves the way open for the Elis, as far as I can see. It is a very difficult meet to dope. The four teams are going to be so close together that a slip on the part of any one of them will throw the meet to someone else. Even Harvard might win, if Northrop take the mile, the two mile relay team wins, and they pick...
...Whenever difficult problems are before Congress the President is apt to call Congressmen to the White House to confer. Last week he called not one conference, but one or more conferences a day. No less than 19 Senators went to the White House successively. It looked almost as if the President meant to conduct a seat by seat canvass of the Senate. He likewise delivered a long "background" talk to newshawks...
...only serious problem encountered in the donation was that of transporation of the mass to Cambridge, an especially difficult task in view of the age, texture, and weight of the specimen...
Coach Clark Hodder's Freshman sextet faces two difficult assignments over the week-end. Today it journeys to Concord, N. B. to encounter at 2 o'clock a strong St. Paul's School team which already has to its credit a surprising victory over the crack Yale Freshmen. On Monday it faces another strenuous contest with the powerful Dartmouth Freshmen at Hanover...
Lamar is taking a capable team South with him to face this difficult assignment; probably it is not in the class of last year's, for Pete Ward, Al Valois, Bill Smith and Larry Crampton are gone. All of these men reached the finals in the Intercollegiate last Spring; the last two battled their way to the championship. But this year Lamar has taken some green material and turned out more good boxers; moreover, the team will be at the top of their form, and they want above all else to win this, the last Harvard boxing meet...