Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...examiner's test is considerably more difficult than the senior life saving one and persons contemplating taking it should start getting into condition now by swimming in the pool. The test consists of a quarter of a mile free style, retrieving a brick in ten feet of water without diving, swimming on the back, using the breast stroke for 100 yards, swimming the side stroke using but one arm for the same distance, and diving in racing manner...
...matter how creditably a woman may play, she can rarely get symphonic training.* Women who play wind instruments are additionally handicapped by the fact that they look funny blowing. Until this year the Chicago Woman's Symphony, conducted by Ebba Sundstrom, a dentist's wife, had men play the difficult winds. But in Manhattan last week there was stout Edith Swan to play the trombone, Amy Ryder, 60 years old and deaf, to lead the French horns. They did not worry about appearing ridiculous any more than Ethel Leginska did when she decided to become a conductor...
...difficult to predict the outcome of the bouts, since there are always 'dark hourses' from the graduate schools who have had previous experience. The members of the University team who ought to provide stern opposition to any graduates are closely matched among themselves, and give reason for belief that they will exclude nearly all outsiders from the finals...
...construction of steeples is the wind stress. Although the girden seem scarcely able to support the stock pole, the chief concern is to make all joints form the ground up so tight that the wind will not be able to move the spire. Slender towers present little difficult since they expose a more or less rounded figure to the wind which meets more resistance in square buildings. Contrary to popular opinion the sway of even the tallest modern buildings does not exceed an inch. Experiments, in which a plumb line was dropped from the tallest elevator shaft in the Woolworth...
Cleverly costumed and set in artistically and carefully planned backgrounds, the production made up in spontaneity and dialogue what it lacked in musical force. R. B. Harrison '32, the snark-hunter and inebriated match-maker, who sang several solos and performed a difficult and effective dance, took the honors for the evening. With R. L. Kimbrough '33, the show's outstanding dancer, he roved about the stage with complete savior-faire...