Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These varied enterprises marked the latest Navy moves in its increasingly difficult publicity fight for a "reasonable appropriation." Last year, a highbrass conference in Key West decided that the three armed services would divvy up the defense budget almost equally, but ever since then, naval officers have had an increasing suspicion that their service was being cased out of its hallowed position as the nation's "first line of defense...
Washington University has been able to get another professor at the last minute, but department head Pleckmann says, "The delay put the department into a most difficult situation...
...uranium contains two principal "isotopes" (U-235 and nonexplosive U-238) which differ only in atomic weight. Since the isotopes are identical chemically, they cannot be separated by chemical means. They must be separated by some process taking advantage of their slightly different atomic weights. The job is extremely difficult and laborious, but the U.S. developed two processes (gaseous diffusion and electromagnetic separation) that worked efficiently...
Dean Sherman credited the large pro total to the fact that in the sophomore year girls found it difficult to work the gym program into their courses of study. In special cases of a failure in any one gym period, the College, she added, waives probation rules through the fall term...
...half course in the "Forms of the Modern Novel." It could be a very good bet (Emerson D). Nock's History of Religions 101 is highly entertaining. Good to listen in on occasionally (Harvard 5). Kenneth Conant's Fine Arts 179, "American Architecture." is non-technical, not difficult, and excellent to audit. Slides and aucedotes (Fogg Large Room...