Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every metropolitan newspaper in both New York and Boston played the Bingham statement big, with the accent on Harvard giving up "big-time" football. It would be difficult to think up a better way to keep capable football players out of the Yard. The mere statement that Harvard will "give up the big-time" is enough to send most athletic-minded scholars to Princeton and Yale...
...hold in China through diplomatic, commercial, educational, and missionary ties, thus leaving China's door open for influence by the West toward the democratic and independent direction. If recognition is delayed for too long, all existing ties between China and the U.S. will be severed, and it will be difficult to re-establish them in the future...
...Salzburg Seminar and World Student Service Fund rely exclusively on student contributions. The College's donations are needed much more by them than by the larger charities, which do not have to rely on this drive alone to reach the students. Although the new arrangement makes it difficult to answer national appeals, it is the only way that student charities can effectively be stressed...
Because the play concerns three periods of time--the historical Henry IV, the past and present of the madman--plus the involved personal relationships of each, it is difficult to follow. One becomes further confused by the difficult of the play's idea. But at no time is the play dull. Mr. Keith, as Henry IV, acts with brilliant, sometimes incredible, imagination and control. At one point in the play, he held the audience's complete attention for at least fifteen minutes. The Brattle Company, no doubt inspired by working with such an actor, was in fine form. Bryant Halliday...
...also commented that because of the great demand for tickets to the Boston Symphony it has been very difficult for students to obtain seats "even if one were willing to pay the price...