Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...educational world is notoriously fertile ground for theories and it is often difficult to know which should be classed with the wheat and which with the tares. Where there is some measure of agreement, it is unfortunate that the general opinion should not be carried into effect. Such a situation, however, is approached in the present condition of the tutorial system...
...indications Japan and America were gradually drawing together again. But rapprochement would be extremely difficult now. The Japanese have always been sensitive to American criticism. They will have only themselves to blame if the stigma which the exclusion act puts on them remains many years longer in the present situation than it otherwise would...
...classical scholarship which he has been pointed at since he was fourteen or fifteen. He has been brought to the point at which he could read the most difficult Latin and Greek literature at sight in large quantities. He is a thorough master of two grammars and to a surprising degree this knowledge has been reduced to illuminating principles of language structure which make the later attack on German, French and Italian much easier for him. And naturally French and Italian are easy when approached with a first class Latin vocabulary, while many of the compounds in German are made...
...history and at the social sciences. This seems to be a logical way of trying to comprehend one's environment. At Oxford nearly all the best men are studying Greece and Rome instead of a modern civilization, and they are concentrating on Greek philosophy. Oxford looks hidebound. It is difficult to see how any one who emerges from a prolonged bout with Plato and Thucydides can be ready for "Sex" and "Labor...
World Significance- European statesmen (including British) have belabored U. S. tariffs as a cause of World Depression, have charged that by curtailing the volume of world trade, U. S. tariffs have helped to make it difficult for Germany and Europe to export enough to pay Reparations and War Debts from their profits. This much is certain: The Runciman emergency tariffs will deal a major blow to the exports of Germany and Russia, a minor blow to U. S. exports (not to mention others), and may throw further out of gear the already groaning mechanism of Reparations and War Debts...