Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attempt to keep that promise turned out to be far more difficult, exciting-and welcome-than the innocent simplicity of 1923 foretold. Before the quarter-century was done, TIME had tried to comprehend and convey the color, drama and meaning of such far-flung complexities as gangsterism, Franz Kafka, swing music, fancy funerals, Wallis Simpson, Marxism, aerial warfare, soap operas, Arnold Toynbee,* Barbara Hutton, the British spirit, Theodore Bilbo, Chen Li-fu, the Townsend Plan, Suzanne Lenglen, currency devaluation, Aldous Huxley, atomic fission, Jimmy Walker and the Supreme Court...
...world community of 1948 has a far more difficult news problem. Knowledge in the soth Century-while enormously greater than ever before-is very unevenly distributed. Specialists are not confined to the faculty of a university; they are found among members of the same household. Various publications address themselves to specialists: one speaks to the physicist, another to his wife (who can't do long division), another to their son who is absorbed in music, another to their neighbor whose consuming interest is politics. But all these individuals have to pull their weight in the same civilization...
...Student Council has been considering for the last week a petition of the Harvard Youth for Democracy which asks a review of the Administration ruling denying recognition to the New Student. Cases of this kind, where the issue of freedom of the press seems to be involved, are always difficult; the problem of the New Student is doubly difficult because it is unavoidably tinged with issues which the Administration hopefully tried to remove from consideration. From a mass of conflicting testimony and opinion, the Council must find some sort of path, set up some sort of guideposts, to be used...
...have been without a mentor. Last spring a delayed search for a man to instruct ruggers in the finer points of scrummaging found no one capable for the task, and that is the problem any '48 Varsity team must face. And unlike filling a gridiron teaching post, it is difficult even to find a man cognizant of rugby rules...
...fall increase itself, so that most of it is borne by those who can best afford it. This means holding as many rooms as possible in the low price-range, within reach of "marginal" students who even now are close to a financial chasm. The problem is admittedly difficult, but if the University takes considerate and forthright action to find the least painful solution, its good faith in rent policy will not be called into question...