Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...questions I should like to ask are these. Is it the opinion of the CRIMSON editors that undergraduates would like or would profit by a non-credit course or half course? Is this a favorable educational situation for teaching or learning the difficult business of educated writing, especially when it is fair to presume that those required to take a non-credit course would be the least competent students? Again, in what ways do the editors of the CRIMSON suppose that "a greatly expanded English C" would differ from the general aims and methods of English...
Today, Monro still has one of the most difficult positions in the University. His long, lean frame and intent features, crowned by straight black hair that sticks up in spikes, are a familiar sight around the Yard at all hours of the day and night. His shirt-sleeved figure has been seen at his office typewriter more than once by Weld Hall residents returning from late dates. His charges, which include veterans in all parts of the University, now number something over 7,000--only 2,000 below the peak of 1946-47. His office is the channel for about...
Many of his most difficult jobs remain unknown to the veterans they concern. Monro like to think of himself as a "shock-absorber" between the well-intentioned but sometimes confusing directives of Uncle Sam and the individual veteran. He tries not to disturb the latter too often with forms-in-triplicate or progress questionnaires...
When asked about her relations with Koischwitz, Miss Gillars lowered her eyes, breathed heavily, and said, "It is difficult to discuss ... It is like discussing religion." But finally, tossing her long silver-grey hair, she admitted, "Of course I loved him." She added: "I consider Professor Koischwitz to have been my destiny...
What about professorial fellow travelers and party sympathizers? The problem is more difficult, said Hook, but the solution is simpler. Since such teachers are not under the hard discipline of the party, "they may still be sensitive to the results of honest inquiry. Whatever harm they do is incomparably less than the harm that would result from any attempt to purge them...