Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William Yandell Elliott, director of the Summer School, last night told the twenty-ninth annual meeting of the Association of Deans and Directors of Summer Sessions that there is a "difficult period ahead" in maintaining freedom in American education...
...unfortunate that Walter Piston's Second Suite did not go over better than it did. It is a difficult piece both to play and understand. The orchestra certainly did its part in the performance, but the audience sat on its hands until the composer went up to the podium to congratulate Mr. Munch...
...want, spoke quietly and simply of his people's past sufferings and of their present needs. But sometimes his words suggested that he did not want to be tainted by the riches and the power he saw about him-even though they might help India along her difficult road. Said he: "It is just like the man who possesses many valuables . . . being constantly afraid of losing or somebody stealing them . . . Possibly he might be a more comfortable man if he didn't have them ... In the terms that the world measures the nations of today, we are weak...
...also has to decide what substitutes should go in, a difficult task in view of the fact that players are constantly streaming on and off the field. After the game, he is fond of parrying newsmen's questions with "I can't answer that one--I have trouble enough keeping 11 men on the field...
...sensed the need for inspiring speech-making even before he was mayor. He studied nights under a Professor Staley at a public speaking school in Boston. Staley comments that Curley was so unrefined when he first went to the school that the young man had a very difficult time convincing the professor to keep him. Curley soon became Staley's best pupil, and even now, the teacher still sends written comments to the mayor on each of his speeches. What ever you would expect a politician to say in an address, you can rest assured that Curley...