Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nevertheless last week's scoop by Chairman Howard was of the first magnitude. After his even more difficult feat three years ago in becoming the first journalist received by the Japanese Emperor since the accession of His Majesty, Roy Howard had to give his word not to quote one word of what the Son-of-Heaven said (TIME, July 3, 1933). Last week the Soviet Government not only permitted quotes but supplied Mr. Howard with a translation of what Joseph Stalin had said in Russian, this interview having been conducted through brilliant, saturnine Constantine Umansky as interpreter. For five...
...score, strode hatless from the theatre. The gallery at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House seemed altogether satisfied when Beethoven's Fidelia was given there last week, taken out of storage for the first time in six years because Soprano Kirsten Flagstad was on hand to sing the difficult role of Leonore. For his libretto the bachelor Beethoven chose one that extolled marital love and devotion. To be near her husband imprisoned in a dungeon Leonore dresses as a boy, takes a job as the jailer's assistant. Dramatic scene comes when she helps dig her husband...
...grades. This includes judicious selection of courses in familiar fields, a craftily genial promotion of favorable relations with instructors, and a liberal amount of genius as Carlyle defined it,--"an infinite capacity for taking pains." If by adopting a less narrow-minded attitude towards his work, or taking a difficult course not in his field because he is interested in it, a man drops a group in his rating, that should be cause to bestow or continue a scholarship, rather than to refuse or rescind...
...undergraduate body is temporarily satisfied with this settlement of the problem, but as a final solution the proposition is fundamentally inadequate. By cutting down on the intercollegiate schedules and limiting outside games, the value and enjoyment of the minor sports are materially reduced. Substantial cost reductions will be very difficult to achieve, unless the hitherto high standard of coaching is done away with and men of Jessor ability employed. For these reasons the new step is a stop-gap-measure, which, if allowed to become permanent, will result in the impaired utility of the newly-supported sports, since...
...dispute over the recent Harvard-Yale boxing match was due to an honest difference of opinion. A distinct ambiguity in the rules resulted in a difficult decision of the pivotal Huffman-Olney bout. The final judgement on this question must be placed before a competent authority, and its decision accepted in a spirit of common sense and mutual regard for the opposite point of view...