Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the anniversary of a half century of fiscal service in Harvard only a few months off, Mr. Taylor is still a vigorous and highly active member of the Lehman Hall staff. Asked about incidents of his career, he replied: "It is difficult to remember much about the past, I have lived almost completely in the present...
...world. "Can it be," he asked, "that there is no such paragon as the normal person? Many text books do not even list 'normal' in their index. Such definitions as have been given are widely open to criticism and the conclusion is reached that normality is very difficult to find...
...stated they disliked the taste of liquor and felt that the main thing to be obtained from drinking was a lessening of their own tension and an increasing of their sociability. . . . Women drunkards have a strong attachment to their mothers, strong narcissism and strong inter-tension, making social contact difficult. . . . The alcoholic woman is always striving for social recognition and fears this will not be given. She experiences feelings of sexual inferiority and projects it in hallucinations to the outside world."-Dr. Frank Joseph Curran, Manhattan...
...year course given by Geneticist Humphrey, who used to break wild horses at the Kansas City Stockyards. At the school's farm near Morristown, Mr. Humphrey and his staff keep prospective instructors following the dogs blindfolded for a month. From that point on the course becomes progressively more difficult. Most candidates, says Mr. Humphrey, have too little patience...
Even with diamond-pointed ruling machines it is extremely difficult to rule hundreds of thousands of such infinitesimal lines accurately on hard metal or glass. Last week at the Washington meeting of the National Academy of Sciences (see above), Physicist Robert Williams Wood of Johns Hopkins showed how a brilliant scientist may adapt for his own use a technique worked out for a wholly differ ent purpose. At California Institute of Technology, Dr. John Donovan Strong has been coating telescope mirrors with a thin, even layer of aluminum by placing the glass in a vacuum tank, boiling the aluminum...