Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...honestly say that we have never encountered an intentionally tricky or unreasonably difficult examination. Allowances are always made for students who obviously know their work but do not have time to finish all the questions...
Since inter-House discussions would be unwieldy and difficult to organize, it remains up to the separate Houses to push forward these meetings. Not only would regular discussions destroy some of the dangers of over-specialization but also they would constitute a positive intellectual contribution to the college on the part of the Houses. Though unspectacular as yet, these meetings have great potentialities which if realized would represent another triumph for the tutorial system at Harvard...
...team," said Neufeld, "is more solid and has more depth than that of last year, but it is not very secure about half the list. Graduation last year took from us many of the best men we have ever worked with in the College. They left not a few difficult positions to be filled on the Varsity...
Forty-four-year-old, Maryland-born Mr. Magruder works in a half-furnished office across the way from Mr. Andrews', flicks cigaret ashes on the floor, shares his superior's casual approach to a difficult task...
...been." Whether General Semantics will become a cult such as technocracy, or will rank in historic importance with the work of Aristotle and Einstein, as not a few scientists believe, it is spreading rapidly in the U. S. Already 3,000 copies of Science and Sanity, an extraordinarily difficult book of 781 pages, have been sold...