Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This man Merwin K. Hart gives so clear an impression of being little more than a pygmy menace that it is difficult to rise to Jovian levels of condemnation. In his speech last night, for instance, which was sponsored by the Free Enterprise Society, a number of remarks proved him beyond doubt to be an anti-semite. To most people it is something of a truism to say that anti-semitism is evil--so much of a truism, in fact, that when a man stands on a chair and shouts "I hate Jews," it is better to ignore...
...American Medical Association that he has operated on 14 sterilized men; nine became fertile. He queried other urologists; 135 reported that they had performed 420 operations to restore fertility, succeeded in 35 to 40% of the cases. The operation, anastomosis (reconnection) of the vas deferens, is not difficult, he added: any surgeon...
...know exactly where I put my nail file," she says, "and I like to find it exactly where I left it.") This is why she prefers, as few skaters do, the required school figures to free skating. The school figures, 41 types in all, are the tedious, exacting, incredibly difficult fundamentals of figure skating (like a vocabulary test that must be passed before being allowed to make a speech). They count 60% in championship competition...
...controversy in the CRIMSON began during my junior year. Some of the members of the board of editors, including myself, felt that the CRIMSON had been losing a little ground during the difficult years of depression. We were anxious to make it a better paper and to attract the ablest editors from each class...
...most difficult assignment was to fathom the doings of the "Med. Facs," a mysterious society, the invitations to which embraced acts which if detected by the College officers might mean expansion from the University. No one could discover the identify of the six "Med. Fac." members until Harvard Class Day, when they appeared faunting on a lapel a sort of black pen-wiper with white skull-and-crossbones. Some of the antics of the "Med, Facs." become notorious, such as placing a fireman's hat on the head of the solider stop the granite monument on Cambridge Common, which...