Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bubble has burst. First of all, the Committee says that it would be too difficult to raise the money. Including the cost of endowment, an item which was for some reason not considered last February, the building might now cost close to $1,500,000. But Yale has set a $10,000,000 goal for its memorial, and Dartmouth, considerably smaller in size, has already raised close to $1,600,000 for a $4,000,000 project. Harvard has never been a poor man's school...
...choice is tentative, though, for the HDC must still find an actor and actress who can fill the difficult lead roles. Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontaine took the parts in the New York production 12 years...
Means of improvement of the unhappy situation are necessarily slow and difficult if any but an arbitrary system of assignment is attempted. The housing authorities have however, profited by two similar autumns, and the discomfort, particularly in the case of the Freshmen in the gym, has been much alleviated. The beds are more comfortable, study conditions better, and the closing hour of the Boylston Reading Room has been extended from 10 to 11 o'clock in the evening...
...sergeant and master at the delicate art of insulting officers without any personal danger, just about walks off with the show. The direction of John O'Shaughnessy, in spite (and because) of what you've read above is really the best thing in the play. It was a very difficult job and he has done it very well...
...somebody changes a course, the secretaries go into action with mountains of paperwork. And nine-tenths of the time anybody does anything this time of year, what with book lines, study cards, and elusive tutors, he gets more worn out, more testy more frayed around the nerves, and more difficult for secretaries to get along with...