Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this University from both a progressive and a practical view-point. Not only is Mr. Landis fully cognizant of the tradition inherent in the school as it stands today, having served as a professor for eight years, but he has served faithfully and well as a public official, performing difficult and complex administrative tasks. That he will combine a thorough knowledge of the dominent trends in present-day legislation and the laws of the land, from a point of view of changing needs, with an open and liberal attitude toward the teaching in the university, is practically certain...
...lives to run another day. The real object of a foxhunter is not to kill a fox, but to observe the wonderful skill and perseverance of a well-trained pack of hounds after a quarry conceded to be the most cunning, the most baffling, and the most difficult of capture of any four-footed animal; and second, to enjoy a healthy gallop across country, which is not without its hazards...
...Senator Glass, who since the death of Senator Fletcher has been senior member of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee with the right to become its chairman, made a difficult decision. Although banking has been his specialty for many years, he renounced his opportunity to become chief arbiter of future banking bills in order to retain his present chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee-and his hold on the New Deal's purse strings...
...them to rally behind someone else. He then supported Roosevelt. Last year he committed political suicide for the nth time and found a more striking way to do it. Refusing nomination on either Republican or Democratic tickets, he waited until both parties had chosen candidates and it became as difficult as possible for him to win. Then he ran for re-election as an independent and won handily...
...getting more difficult to believe that it was a political issue between the Governor and the President, and that the former manipulated the Regents into voting the ouster purely on grounds of differing political philosophy. Certainly if he did, he was misjudging his man when he agreed to have President Conant come out, snoop around, and say that he didn't. If that deal goes through he will be really investigated, and no mistake...