Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impossible to find immediate replacements for men like Professor Kittredge, and it is difficult to single out certain men as replacing others directly. Nevertheless, John N. Bush, Professor of English, who was promoted in 1937, certainly relaces Professor Lowes in a scholarly sense. George W. Sherburn, Professor of English, appointed in 1939, assumes Professor Greenough's former position. Howard M. Jones, Professor of English and Chairman of the Department of Modern Languages, joined the English staff...
...seems doubtful if this theory is an adequate approach to the problem. America faces a difficult job in staying neutral, and the teaching of pro-Allied interpretations of the war will not help. If America is to stay calm in the face of foreign fire, it would do well to go on teaching both sides of the question as it has in the past. Contrary to some belief, there still are two sides...
...from the car came to the platform and indicated that he wanted to speak to me. 'Mr. Rockefeller is in that car,' he whispered, 'he wants to speak to the miners.' It was difficult for me to believe that anyone could so misunderstand a situation. 'For God's sake tell Mr. Rockefeller to leave here at once,' I replied, 'he may be killed, if these men find out he is here.' " Mr. Rockefeller left...
...York Stock Exchange ex-president). His ideas included a thorny explanation of U. S. history which, expounded in his best book, The Promise of American Life, in 1909, has defied simplification ever since. A conscientious but seldom an inspired writer, he painfully ground out his long, unpopular, difficult editorials as a necessary but dreadful duty. But Herbert Croly protégés, from popularizing Liberal Walter Lippmann to scholarly Critic Edmund Wilson, spread Croly's ideas far beyond his reputation...
...more difficult iron ore problem, Army engineers discuss several alternatives...