Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rough water from the wake of several pleasure boats made rowing difficult at first, and Jack Wilson found it hard to settle the stroke down to the usual 32, but once he was able to the crew responded beautifully and spaced out well...
...Physicist Frederick Albert Saunders of Harvard, in collaboration with Virtuoso Jascha Heifetz. Their conclusion (announced last week at a meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Manhattan): A Stradivarius violin, when played slowly, is not superior in tone to the best modern instruments, but responds more quickly when difficult rapid passages are played-a result probably of aging, not of the makers' skill...
...attitude. There were at least three tangible results. First, the year of study has given some the opportunity to learn a type of reporting often neglected or very poorly done. Thus good reporting of new scientific developments was the aim of one man's study; another dwelt on the difficult field of South American relations. Secondly, the Nieman Fellowships have enabled "small-town" editors to gain a perspective on the larger problems of government and international relations. This year there was but one editor of the "country" type; among next year's there will be three. Finally, the year...
...task of refusing Mayor Lyons' request was made considerably more difficult by the role which that worthy chose to assume--that of requesting a contribution, rather than demanding a tax provision. This has put Harvard somewhat on the defensive, and may lay it open in the future to accusations of "failing" the city. Of course, Cambridge's financial condition may indeed be due to decreased tax income. So says the Mayor. But perhaps it is more attributable to an often extremely uneconomical city government. In either case, Harvard cannot be expected to ameliorate the deficit unless it wishes to function...
History I in a statement last night emphasized its policy of "discounting loose generalizations and vague formulae." In an attack on canned answers the statement said, "Pre-digested material, steadily recurring in a set of blue-books, is not difficult to detect, and a deliberate effort to deal with it will be made...