Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present method of performing this difficult maneuver, although in many ways a remarkably successful compromise, is still open to criticism on several fronts; the most conspicuous of these weakness now consists in the extraordinary length of the program of instruction. The syllabus of the material covered consists of a list of topics in the fields of analytic geometry, trigonometry, and differential and integral calculus, embracing a great mass of fundamental mathematical learning, and including many radically different concepts. Moreover, in the customary presentation the work leaps with disconcerting rapidity from analytic geometry to calculus, with a fairly long digression...
...witless citizens. John Edgar Hoover (no kin), Director of the U. S. Bureau of Investigation, does not want his identification division considered a miraculous detective bureau. Says he, contrary to fictioneers: "Since the . . . system utilizes all ten fingers for the classification and filing of prints, it is extremely difficult for the bureau to identify latent fingerprints found at the scenes of crimes, unless some data with reference to the names of the suspect or suspects involved, with descriptive information, are supplied...
...earth metal. This he cooled to about -306.4° F., when he began wrenching the molecules with a huge magnet which University of California owns. Liquid helium absorbed and withdrew the magnetically generated heat. At -459.1° Professor Giauque was stopped, regretting that he could not stride the stupendously difficult little step of .3° which would carry him to Absolute Zero where substances should retain no more heat, where molecular activity should completely cease. where all things should be coldly inert. But Absolute Zero must be unattainable on earth except in a perfect vacuum, for where there is substance...
Semi-weekly section meetings are spent almost entirely in quizzes on the lectures, and most of the work of the course consists of memorizing slides and learning the characteristics of the men and the periods. The course, though hardly a "snap," is not difficult, and offers a pleasant and reasonably thorough review of one of the greatest periods of art and sculpture...
This course is only for the most intrepid sould who pride themselves either upon linguistic ability or blind courage. Freshmen who have not heard that French B is one of the most difficult courses in College usually take it in a fit of ambition to pass off language requirements rapidly. Occasionally, however, an unusual upperclassman accepts the challenge to learn all the grammar in a few months, read 1500 pages of moderately difficult literature, and attend sessions five times a week under Dr. Herrick's tutelage...