Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hill's administration at Harvard belongs perhaps the most important part of the volume. Here are told the difficult he had with the changing ideas of education of the day. It was a time when the elective system and the high standards of the University were under fire and the way with which the President handled his tasks is extremely interesting reading to those who today are involved in the changing swirl of education...
...excess of the Yale record. Rogers and Cooke for the Yale quartet consistently swim their lap of the relay in 55 seconds. The other two members of the team, Christner and Willcox, are minute men. Since the Crimson relay swimmers average about the same speed, it is exceedingly difficult to make any prophecy as to the outcome of the event...
When President Roosevelt has a difficult job he resorts to his great gift for persuasion. Immediately after taking office he resorted to it to reassure the public about the banking crisis. He resorted to it to win public acceptance of NRA. He resorted to it to get his gold bill passed. And last week when he made the first move in his long delayed tariff policy, he resorted to persuasion once again. To Congress he sent a message stating a simple fact, dramatizing it with an appeal to human sympathy, reinforcing it with a man-to-man appeal for understanding...
Like other recent Chatterton pictures, Journal of a Crime indicates that stolen property is often difficult to sell. Ever since Warner Brothers took Ruth Chatterton from Paramount in 1931, they have found her a serious problem. A solemn, intelligent actress with searching eyes and plaintive voice, she lacks the qualifications for the rapidfire melodrama or the garish musicomedy which are now Warner specialties. Pictures like Journal of a Crime suit Ruth Chatterton better than they suit the tastes of audiences...
...charging unfairness, Wilkins must have known that he was on dangerous ground; for at least the forms of a hearing have been followed, and, as always in such cases, it was difficult to point out specific evidence. Beneath his smouldering words, however, there appeared to lie three very general complaints against the conduct of the hearing...