Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instead of announcements of individual reviews, tutoring school advertising in monthly publications has supported tutoring as an institution. In an advertised appeal to parents, in the Hasty Pudding program, Wolff's emphasized the "difficult problems of adjustment in college. . . Guidance may avert more serious maladjustments...
...radio last week at a New York Advertising Club luncheon. Its gist: "Left to themselves, the Japanese will never subjugate China. With the assistance of America [i.e. with U. S. scrap iron, other war materials], I sometimes fear that Japan will temporarily win this war. I find it difficult to decide whether I am needed more in America than in China...
...another; to travel always in pairs; to drink beer with beer drinkers. He forbade Jesuits to accept ecclesiastical honors-a rule broken only when the Pope commands one to accept a Cardinal's hat as an honor to the Society itself, or appoints one to a difficult bishopric or archbishopric. Ignatius dismissed a father who dared praise him publicly and forbade those living with him to look him straight in the face.† Of women he said: "Conduct religious conversations only with aristocratic women and never with the door shut...
...many of them, whether they may be able to be allied with Dudley, is a question at the present writing. The powers that be in the athletic world here, nevertheless, must fit these men into the competitive scheme of things. Financially, this task will be made very much less difficult by the Committee's plan...
...gallery. To evolve a philosophy of art history which would give meaning to change and value to accomplishment, often requires that we study phenomena which are not, in the orthodox, artistic at all. How much simpler to build stone walls that make teaching easier though they make learning more difficult. Thus one avoids the charge of being an academic jack-of-all-trades, and remains the specialist behaving as though his field of knowledge existed for its own sake...