Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inch apertures besides two patrol cameras. Every clear night a group goes from Cambridge to Oak Ridge to take photographs because the conditions of light and atmosphere there are superior to those surrounding Cambridge. During the past week cloudy conditions have made these observations difficult. The 24 inch instrument is now testing a photoelectric cell that will be used in measuring the luminosity of faint stars. This is also the instrument that will open the World's Fair in case it is cloudy at the Lick Observatory on June...
...literary-quick "returns" are easy to get. Sound literary instructions, especially by mail, at any price is one of the most difficult things in the world to deliver. No layman can believe that a professional critic pronounces upon literary work for actual money; the assumption is that because reading is a recreation, any talk concerning reading must be recreation to all men. No one who doesn't like to work for nothing should ever become a literary critic and no one should answer offers to teach anything by mail without having a personal pedigree, bibliography and bank statement from...
...years no enemy could reach island Venice by land. Navigation was difficult in the lagoon that separates it from the mainland. Venetians skated over the shallows in flat-bottomed gondolas, floated their houses on piles in the alluvial mud, cherished their "splendid isolation." They lost part of it when an iron railway viaduct was strung across the Laguna Venetia in 1846. But not until last week did a road, of brick and stone and concrete, ever attach Venice, "Pearl of the Adriatic," to Italy's mainland...
Philosophy 3b is the more difficult of Professor Whitehead's two courses. If you can choose, or take both, Philosophy 3 (second half-year) is the first to be taken...
...prescribed reading, which is not unusually difficult, and in the examination, where there is a choice of three out of 11 questions, the emphasis is on understanding a few topics thoroughly. A wide range of choice is permitted, in picking a topic for the course thesis. Concentrators in fields other than philosophy are graded more easily, and are encouraged to write on whatever in the lectures has bearing on their particular interests...