Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present so divided between Widener Library and the Music Building that music cannot be located and if found in Widener cannot be consulted because students are not given free access to the stacks. We therefore respectfully advocate that sufficient funds be allotted the Music Department to remedy this difficult situation by transferal of the entire collection to Paine Hall...
Specialization in any period or genre of music has been difficult in the past except for the exceptional student. Next year, following Music 1, perquisite for concentrators, special courses are devoted to (1) periods and countries, (2) styles and mediums, (3) forms, and (4) individual composers. There is only one course listed under each of these headings, however, so that men for the coming year will still have a fairly limited approach to the subject matter. It is understood, however, that in the following year alternate courses will be given to fill out each of the above categories. This scarcity...
Expert billiard players, disgusted with ordinary billiards because it is so easy, have never ceased devising harder variations. Three-cushion billiards, in which the cue ball must touch three cushions before completing a carom, is the most difficult of all. As a swimmer, Lee specialized in long distance, won the U. S. championship five times. Because of his swimming prowess he was asked to join the New York Athletic Club in 1925. When he took to utilizing the club's billiard tables, it naturally occurred to him to learn the game the longest, hardest...
Egloff: Alcohol-gasoline is a distinctly inferior motor fuel in performance, consumption and upkeep of motor. Difficult starting, slow acceleration,'over-heating of engines, and rougher driving can be expected...
...Society, has 25 lb. of inositol which he keeps locked in a safe at University of Iowa. Inositol is an alcohol which occurs exiguously in the seeds of certain plants. Treated with nitric acid it forms a solid substance about twice as explosive as dynamite. Inositol has been so difficult to extract that only about 5 lb. are produced annually and the price is $500 per lb. Professor Bartow and his able associate, Dr. W. W. Walker, found a way to extract inositol from the water in which corn is soaked to make cornstarch. The 300,000,000 quarts...