Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deans in charge of Freshmen do invaluable work. And in the tutoring schools on the square, and even in some of the stores, are people whose advice helps many a harassed youth find himself. However, this delicate matter of helping young men through a difficult period should properly be left in the hand of the college of which the young men are members. The adviser system, in spite of attempts to improve it, is still a ghastly failure. With this in view, Phillips Brooks House is nurturing in the collective mind of its undergraduate and graduate boards an idea which...
...that Palme Dutt has to say is revealing and significant to the non-Communist as to the party member, but the former will find it difficult not to enter reservations here and there; though supporting the Soviet Union, he may find difficulty in accepting the assumption, implicit rather than explicit, of its always-rightness, and to find the author's explanation of its entry into the League and its relations to the Third International wholly satisfactory. Seeking peace and fearing present war, he may still doubt the fundamental distinction which Palme Dutt draws between 1914 and 1936 in terms...
...radio program. That it serves a useful purpose in providing needed advice for persons whose circumstances do not give them easy access to lawyers is undeniable. Furthermore the sponsors and producers of the program cannot be held responsible for a system that makes law and justice a difficult and terrifying matter to persons who are poor and depressed...
...civil war was the result of fascist provocation, that no working-class revolution threatened the Spanish Republic before the attempted coup d'etat of General Franco on July 18. The author writes so much about the wretched reporting of Spanish politics and events that it sometimes is difficult to say whether he is covering the war or writing a critique of British journalism. He ends his book with an account of the siege of the Alcazar, which he witnessed...
...Difficult as it is for Renée to understand these monomaniacs, her trials are increased when her husband deserts in an effort to rejoin her. Just why Captain Pierre chooses this difficult way of getting back to France. Author Hutchinson does not make clear, but the trip involves disguising himself as a monk, a corpse, a laborer. By the time Pierre reaches France the Germans are advancing. He joins the army, deserts again when near his home, is arrested, recognized by a brother officer, released, swept up in the retreat, reaches Renée just ahead of the German...