Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most difficult of modern sciences, but it is due rather to the fact that the work must be tempered to the capacities of the many Freshmen who take the course. Any subject purposely made so simple as to be placed within the grasp of Freshmen is not fit work for the necessarily more mature minds of upperclassmen. In addition, the Freshmen environment cannot help but produce a deadening effect upon the efforts of the Junior or Senior...
...book as "Wellington." The material runs thin, and might even be called superficial, except that these travel sketches are always so well drawn and prove so diverting. Guedalla has not lost his sharp wit nor his ability to portray lucidly. He has done a competent piece of work with difficult and rather unsatisfactory material...
...college should provide for these men. But, disregarding the physical difficulties of a rapid expansion, the services involved would cost a great deal of money. And in the minds of any college governing board, the responsibility to regular undergraduate and graduate students, a responsibility which it is infinitely difficult to maintain intact in times of depression, is more urgent from the point of view of proximity and at least equally urgent from the point of view of social welfare...
...with, Morris and Blondell--to whom credit must be given for being well chosen for their parts--emote, snarl, and wisecrack at each other in a half hearted manner, Blondie's high pressure, big, beautiful, blue eyes exude sex appeal which usually missed the mark, and Morris has a difficult time in his dramatic, but obvious, moments...
...reasonable one of the minority whose irrigating water would be diverted. Any governmental attempt at water control is anteceded by pioneer projects instituted by individuals; and their unwillingness to dessicate their holdings in the interests of what is, in this case, a rather hypothetical influx of activity, is not difficult to appreciate. But the real obstacle is the popular disapproval of subsidizing the development of regional industry in competition with the unassisted industry of other areas...