Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lisbon harbor were so vexed that they mutinied against their officers on the sloop Afonso de Albuquerque and the destroyer Dāo. Immediately Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar opened fire on the ships with powerful Lisbon fortress batteries, disabled and towed them ashore where it will not be difficult to patch them up. Oliveira Salazar soldiers marched the mutinous sailors to jail whence they expected to be sent to the Portuguese penal colony in the tropics. In an adroit proclamation the Portuguese Government intimated that it had known beforehand of the coming mutiny and, instead of nipping...
...difficult you know, my hosts, after so long of writing to you from such a distance that I can say almost anything I like with the certainty that you will have the hell of a job to prove that I am not making it all up to play an away game, so to speak. It is galling to my poetic imagination, so happily occupied in the fascinating pastime of creating a figmentary sort of university life three thousand miles away, to have to write in and presumably about things to which you knew the answers long before...
...underbrush has been cleared out of the Yard, no solution seems to present itself. Local potentates who lash the planned economy have certainly shown themselves incapable of intelligent foresight. One regrets that the Tercentenary Celebration could not be held in the dust Bowl, but this also seems difficult. Perhaps the next three hundred years will see the answer...
...always very difficult to know what is happening right under your own nose. Those who have over participated in battle will know what I mean. You hear a lot of noise and see a lot of people do this and that and t'other things, but you have to wait for the newspapers from home to find out what really took place. There is therefore no use my trying to play the prophet, but I am under the impression that we are living in an age when Niotzsche's far-famed "revaluation of all values" is rapidly becoming a concrete...
Beset on all sides by the Muckers of the Mind, who whenever circumstances like the present arise, will do their best to destroy that which they recognize as their most dangerous enemy, a gift for clear and concise thinking, most of our universities will have a difficult time. But there Harvard enjoys a privilege that makes it unique among our so-called seats of learning...