Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...owners of the property left to dispose of it at will. No one in Winthrop House, for example, would relish the idea of a towering apartment house on the land. Without University control the possibilities of such an occurrence are one hundred per cent greater then with it. And difficult as they are to fill apartment houses seems to spring up with remarkable case...
Members of the University will receive circulars enclosing health seals in the mail this morning. The annual sale of Christmas seals by the Cambridge Tuberculosis and Health Association begins today. The quota for this district is $10,000. Industrial firms and banks are cooperating i n spite of the difficult times, and the Association expects to raise the necessary amount to cover its expenses...
...long time the CRIMSON competitions for the News Board have been considered extremely difficult, perhaps thus enhancing the prestige of those who finally become editors. However, careful planning of one's time can do wonders toward simplyfying and making easier the competition, and the time formerly wasted can be converted into more useful effort...
President Lowell's resignation heralds the conclusion of a long and distinguished term of service to Harvard. His influence is as difficult to appraise as is the lasting gratitude of nearly a generation of students who have been fortunate enough to share the culminating accomplishments of the President's administration, are especially indebted...
There arises a suspicion that the National Council of English Teachers is avoiding a difficult task when it reasons: "The populace makes mistakes in English; the populace is good; therefore mistakes are good." The American version of the English tongue is fast losing all the pleasant qualities that make the pages of the Spectator and of Dickens mellow and stimulating. It has acquired a raucous tone, journalistic and barbarous. Balanced periods have disappeared even from legislative oratory, the hasty precision of modernity has killed leisurely and reflective style. These faults may be laid at the door of American classrooms, where...