Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficult to understand the attitude of the Princeton authorities, an attitude meriting no other name than intolerance. The custom of forced attendance at church is a gross anachronism. More significant, it is a serious impediment to the cause of religion, struggling mightily to adapt itself to a changing world. To attempt to stimulate religious belief by cramming it down a man's throat is folly. The normal individual not only resents such a practice, but will have a lifelong prejudice against the food of which he partakes so grudgingly...
Thus it is difficult to see any real improvement over the old and admittedly inefficient general faculty meeting. While at first glance it seems to shine with an aura of super-refined efficiency, critical examination proves that it is only Old Faithful, paraded out under a new name...
Last week in Manhattan even the spectacles behaved. (He had bought new pairs.) His first performance was painstaking, tensely sincere. But his program was difficult for an audience which wanted to begin the season with music it knew well and loved. The Philharmonic engaged Klemperer to be "spokesman for the internationally modern composer." And true to his calling he played Schönberg's gilded transcription of Bach's E Flat Prelude and Fugue and Sibelius' stark Second Symphony...
...think I can do it again, but it's going to be very difficult. The field is to be exceptionally strong because of the presence of the British Curtis Cup team. . . . Any one of a number of girls can succeed if they happen to be on top of their game. . . . Maureen may have the stuff this time. . . . None of us can quite match Glenna...
...Temporary Student Employment Plan has proved itself an intelligent answer to a difficult problem. There are numerous jobs around a large University which can be performed especially well by students. The report from the Employment Office indicates that this year the Plan will provide less routine, purely manual work and more jobs that will offer the student opportunity "to increase his knowledge of academic subjects." This change promises to make the Plan even more advantageous to the student worker...