Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frye, an associate professor of Middle Eastern Studies, traveled last summer to Moscow and Leningrad. He said that he had found it somewhat difficult to get around, not because the Soviet regime had tightened regulations for foreign travel, but due to an improved bureaucracy and increased red tape...
...credit side of the balance were good teamwork on a day that made spectacular playing difficult, and much improved tackling. On the debit was an injury to South African graduate student Derek Henderson that will put him out for the rest of the season with a displaced cartilege and ripped ligaments...
Moliere's Les Precieuses Ridicules is of another and quite as difficult genre, although its success was not nearly so marked. It is a charming comedy of manners, though lacking a bit in substance. Two young men send their footmen to deceive with graces two provincial young ladies bent on becoming women of fashion. The result is mildly amusing, although the performance seemed a bit forced at moments, generally over-directed and over-acted. But again it is difficult to draw the line where farce ceases to convince. Gail Jones and Phyllis Ferguson were the two ambitious young ladies...
...student persuing the catalogue for a course on American literature has a difficult time. He is faced with choices, ranging from a survey course spanning the entire subject, to intensive graduate courses in Melville...
...student of 1895 looking for a course in American literature also had a difficult time, but in a different way. In 1895 no courses in American literature were given at Harvard, and no mention of American literature was made in the catalogue. Twenty-three years before, in 1872, Princeton reputedly initiated the study of American literature in America; but Harvard, home of many of the greatest American writers, would have nothing to do with...