Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present student body is not neglected by the Study, which also serves as an advisory committee for the Hygiene Department. Difficult cases that the Department cannot handle are sent next door for analysis. "Sometimes it is merely a problem of career adjustment--whether a man should be a journalist or a lawyer--or of deciding whether a student can do college work," Dr. Heath says...
Inkspots & Removers. These unhappy trends, by Smith's analysis, have their beginnings in the teachers' colleges, where teachers are exposed to a thorough indoctrination of modern pedagogy, without which they could not hope for promotion ("Socrates himself would find it extremely difficult to be certified"). They waste valuable years taking courses in everything from the Rorschach inkspot method of diagnosing personality to the problems of student personnel administration. But what is education really for? The teachers' colleges, as far as Smith could determine...
After the plutonium has been formed in the pile's uranium rods, it must be separated from the uranium by a chemical operation which is delicate and difficult, because the rods are fiercely radioactive. All the manipulations in the refining process must be performed by remote control from behind massive shields. Every bit of apparatus that has been used in refining plutonium is poisoned and dangerous to handle...
...symphonic poem, On the Other Side of the Araks, was written to celebrate the struggle of the people of southern Azerbaijan "with the Anglo-American imperialists in Iran." A Sixth Symphony, by one Janis Ivanov, had been inspired by the "difficult past and bright present" of the Latvian people (no longer harassed by political independence since their 1940 incorporation in the Soviet Union...
...difficult for even the best comedians to wrestle with such tired stuff as this. The authors--Garson Kanin, who wrote "Rat Race" and "Born Yesterday," and his wife Ruth Gordon--lacked their usual light touch on this...