Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...introduction of a textbook by McIsaac and Smith in Economics A, must have greatly boosted the business of the tutoring schools. This book might be intelligible to an economist, but, for students in an elementary course, it is as clear as federal income tax regulations. Difficult subjects can be handled in clear, lucid sentences, but clearness is not one of the virtues of the book. It should be removed from next year's reading list and replaced by one that is more comprehensible...
Added to all these there was, of course, Nobel Prizeman Saavedra Lamas, one of the most important and one of the most difficult to handle. Dr. Saavedra is a rich man of excellent family and he married the daughter of a former President. He was educated in a Jesuit school, went to Paris to complete his education, traveled much in Europe, went home to be trained in the anti-U. S. atmosphere of Argentine diplomatic circles. He endowed and sat in a chair of labor legislation at the University of Buenos Aires. In 1932, when General Agustin P. Justo became...
...world by itself. It is unfair to expect Harvard players to oppose imported musclemen. It is equally unfair to expect the H.A.A. continually to oppose small, vociferous groups of victory-minded alumni. Yet the rising tide of professionalism puts just such burdens on players and officials, makes increasingly difficult a simon-pure athletic existence...
...very difficult to react intelligently toward "Lady Precious Stream," In all honesty it must be confessed that its excessively exotic qualities have the immediate effect of alienating the baffied spectator. He is more than apt to take the thing quite unsympathetically, and dismiss it as infantile makebelive. It is only after he has leisurely considered the explanatory notes on the program that he begins to wonder if he should have enjoyed the play in spite of himself. There is an elucidator in the performance, but he's such a fop that one is inclined not to listen...
Boehler, though highly regarded in Central Europe, is an artist comparatively unknown to the American art public. Following the lead of Cezanne, Gaugin, Picasso, and Matisse, his paintings have a hazy quality which make them difficult to understand at first glance. With a little study, however, the colors come out with a vibrancy which is usually found only in stained glass windows or a mosaic...