Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of that learned group find themselves caught with an honors thesis and a great many course papers outside their field from which they can not be excused. Most deeply submerged are concentrators in History-Literature and Bio-Chemistry, for, belonging to no formal department, they find it very difficult to get excused from an overdoes of essays seven inside their field. To alleviate the distress it would be more satisfactory if the supervision of such problems passed from the hands of the individual departments to a central body...
Attacking Walter Lippmann's plea last year for cooperation between the two countries, Baxter argued that it was difficult to accept the columnist's reasoning after what has happened at Godesburg and Munich. He pointed out, likewise, the difficulty of "making joint action work in the Far East," since English interests there are in the long run secondary and public opinion in both democracies is opposed...
Sensory perception in animals is a major preoccupation in the psychology laboratories of the University of Rochester. There young John Warkentin, by recording the eye movements of animals placed inside a striped, revolving cylinder, has tested visual acuity in such difficult subjects as snakes, frogs, toads, turtles, alligators, gophers, Gila monsters. Some months ago Rochester's psychology department chairman, Dr. Leonard Carmichael, left to become president of Tufts College. He was replaced by trim, twinkly, soft-spoken Elmer Augustine Kurtz Culler, formerly of the University of Illinois, who has made profound studies of the "conditioned response" and whose specialty...
...abhors bloodshed. Another characteristic is his fighting sympathy for the underdog. He is frankly, definitely, enthusiastically prolabor, believes that relations between capital and labor constitute the nation's most difficult problem...
Writing in a minute, almost unreadable script, which he explained made it difficult for people to detect his errors in spelling, Steffens jotted down a few paragraphs of his letters every morning, sometimes forgot to mail them. With their air of being written for himself rather than for the people who received them, they are unique in published correspondence-as if Steffens had kept a diary, but found life too interesting to hide its record away, tearing off a few pages from time to time and sending them to his friends...