Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three initial games with the local schools are rendered more difficult because the schoolboys usually get a start of a week or two on the college Freshmen. Furthermore, a week or more is necessary before the Freshman coaches can put together a team from the packs of players with most of whom they are entirely unacquainted. A glance at the records of past football teams easily verifies this apparently pessimistic statement. The drought in Freshman football victories during the last two years has been desolate, to say the least...
Everyone may have done his best, but the task of spreading plot and characterization evenly has proved too difficult...
Fish Minds. Professor James Gray of Cambridge declared that fish: 1) perform simple reflex acts; 2) form associations between events; 3) accomplish difficult migrations apparently involving memory; 4) display emotion. "As far as I can form a judgment," said he, "these four types of behavior include most, if not all, of the activities of the human race. ... I do not believe we can put our finger on any one of our mental powers and say, 'Herein are we a race apart, elevated above the rest of the animal world...
...last fills the bill was, in the absence of real evidence last week, doubted by most airfolk. Most promising indication was the fact that an integral part of the system is the Sperry gyropilot. This extraordinary device is already capable of so many feats that it is not difficult for some professionals to believe that it can effect blind landings...
...every 37 entrants in the contest -54.000 contestants all told-got all the answers to the rirst group of puzzles right. A second set of 90 more difficult puzzles was mailed to them, to be solved in ten days. One in every six-9,000-came through this. A third set of 90 puzzles most fiendishly devised served only to prove the calibre of the 9,000, of whom 8,160 returned correct answers in five days. In accordance with the rules, the contest thereupon became literary, each survivor having to submit an essay on the increased popularity...