Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...held on the afternoon of December 30, and the morning of December 31, respectively. Teams from Dartmouth, McGill, New Hampshire, and other New England and Canadian colleges are expected to provide hard competition for a new Crimson outfit, inexperienced in formal team competition and lacking intensive practice over difficult courses to test its skill...
...dumb" phase when the lower jaw becomes paralyzed. Rabies is a much rarer disease than commonly supposed. Immunity to it is high in dogs and humans. The Pasteur treatment within five days of being bitten is highly effective protection. Detection of rabies in its early stages is difficult. The rabid dog is infectious a week before any symptoms appear. As its illness (always fatal to the dog) comes on, it will first seem melancholy, extra affectionate, sexually excited, or uneasy and inclined to seek solitude. It is apt to gather up straw, thread, bits of wood and trash. It will...
...look at local industries, asking grown-up questions. The Croton truant officer was perplexed, too. Once he offered to help round up Hessian Hills truants, along with those from the public schools. He was told that was unnecessary; but if he liked he might help Hessian Hills at its difficult daily job of getting the children to go home when school is over...
...will not sell in quantities, and such organizations as the 'American Council of Learned Societies' are obviously unable to finance any material number of articles. This leaves the brunt of responsibility for this important work on the universities. And here, as everywhere else, conditions are not ideal. It is difficult to get university presses successfully started. More consideration should be given to them, as they are at present poorly endowed...
...last youth has overcome the system, has been forced to take a realistic point of view. With considerable reservation, this interpretation may be correctly applied to the present generation of college men. But once the ominous cloud of unemployment has been removed, the system will reassert itself. It is difficult to propose an effective solution for a problem which has become an integral part of the nation's educational methods. But this much is certain: the lesson of the past two years is unanswerable in its condemnation of the coddling, however well intended, which shapes the attitude of college youth...