Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roger B. Merriman '94, Master of the House and donor of the bowls, inaugurated the bowling season last week by tossing the first set. Finding it difficult to control his power, however, be soon withdrew. John M. Potter '26, head tutor, confined his activity to remarking on the excellent condition of the green, a remark obviously aimed at numerous loudly voiced opinions that their technique was not entirely to blame for their poor shots...
...known is a pregnant woman. After her gravid body was dried and bandaged, 4,600 years ago, her husband encased her in a tomb which was opened only last month. Ancient doctors used forceps (which killed the baby) and performed Caesarean sections (which killed the mother) in cases of difficult delivery. Hindus today often put a brazier of hot charcoal under the maternity bed to assist Nature. More primitive obstetricians help by jumping up & down on the pregnant woman's abdomen...
...many a church job behind him. He had scarcely made an appearance, had scarcely stuttered a line before the audience accepted him, started to laugh its approval. Muriel Dick-Son exhibited a sure, clear voice, a pleasing professional stage presence and a diction, so polished that it was difficult to believe that the D'Oyly Carte once frowned on her for a burry Scottish accent...
Track hazards, in the form of parked autos and strong winds make handicapping more difficult than at Jamaica. But spectators, with one voice, declare that the gentle (third-floor) rain from heaven, which tastes much like beer, makes the Harvard course not only faster and more slippery, but it also tickles the palate more than the ordinary Jamaica downpour...
Since the parent departments control the courses, only the tutors can be discussed separately. (An estimate of professors and courses will be found in the articles on Chemistry and Biology). Despite natural human variation, most tutors are considered competent, if not excellent. Because the field is difficult to cover, tutorial work takes on particular importance, and though some tutors are not sufficiently at home in the field to know what must be stressed and what passed over, the average concentrator finds himself well enough prepared for divisionals...