Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Veterans: ". . . A difficult task. A careful study should be made with a view to elimination of inequalities and injustices and effecting all possible economies...
...question, "Is the Experimental College a success?" Dr. Meiklejohn attempts no flat answer. In general, parents said yes. But Experimenter Meiklejohn and his Advisers, viewing it as an educational method, find the problem more difficult, content themselves with making observations, presenting recommendations to the University whose President Glenn Frank helped plan the College. Some observations...
...flash off. If the material can be put in a vacuum tube the process is comparatively easy. Otherwise the cathode rays must be shot out of the vacuum tube through a very thin metal window into the open air, and then upon material to be examined. This is exceedingly difficult to accomplish. Air tends to dissipate and absorb cathode rays before they can strike x-rays from anything. Dr. Gorton Rosa Fonda exhibited a stubby, 12-in. tube which produces an extraordinary amount of cathode rays in air as a bluish haze around an aluminum window. The device produces...
...structural testing room. Chief problems to be attacked: nature of the so-called "boundary layer" of air, adjacent to the outer skin of an airship, and its resistant effect upon outriggers, radiators, ventilator hoods and other protrusions; study of surface wind currents which make ground-handling of an airship difficult and hazardous...
...publish controversial articles, such as are present rarely attempted, and which can, because it does not depend on poetry and fiction for all its material, maintain a consistently high standard for the poetry and fiction which it does print. For the Advocate editors to do this would be doubly difficult. They would have to ignore custom and habit, and build up a new reputation, perhaps losing much that is good in their old reputation. However, there is an excellent opportunity for a group of ambititious young men, who would take the whole University as their realm, who would be read...