Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Students who have not had previous training in Greek are advised not to enter this field since Greek G the elementary course, though well given, is dull and difficult. Greek 12 and Greek 8 are recommended as good preparation for divisionals. Greek B, although suffering from the common defects of all survey courses, provides ample coverage of Plato and the Lyric poets...
Numerous signs attest to the fact that the structure is not of the latest fireproof construction, yet facilities for emptying the building are at best scanty. The wire ladder on the second floor is the single attempt at a means of escape, and this would be difficult to unroll or manipulate, especially as iron bars are secured across the adjacent window...
...advertising to bring people to their "Paradise," and then subjects them to such malicious practices, many travelers who would have attended the dedication of the San Francisco Bay Bridge late in May are passing it up in protest. Thousands feel that if Californians want to make it more difficult to get to the Golden Gate than to get through the Pearly Gates, they would probably prefer looking at the Golden Gate all by themselves to banking tourists spendings...
...said he: "The formal elegance of the Altamira bison; the grandeur of outline in the Norwegian rock engravings of bear, elk and whale; the cornucopian fecundity of Rhodesian animal landscapes; the kinetic fury of the East Spanish huntsmen; the spontaneous ease with which the South African draftsmen mastered the difficult silhouets of moving creatures: these are achievements which living artists and many others who are interested in living art have admired...
...efforts to conceal one brutal crime while preparing for another, comes under the head of a daring cinematic experiment. Any picture in which Robert Montgomery, whose previous contribution to the screen has been a seven-year marathon of ingenuous charm, gives a first-rate performance in a difficult role, rates as at least a major surprise. Night Must Fall, adapted from the play which Emlyn Williams wrote and acted for a year in London and two months in Manhattan (TIME, Oct. 12), scores on both counts, easily the most interesting item in the year's cinema file on criminology...