Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difficult to tell definitely, but the most probable starters seem to be Hooper and Copeland. A much improved junior, Warren Huff, will be one of the top reserves...
While on the subject of exams, a new gripe might just as well be added. Proctors put the time a student finishes his exam on the cover of those blue books which are handed in early. The rationale is that this gives the instructor an idea as to how difficult his exam was. In reality, the time listings serve to prejudice the grader against the student who finishes early. This is understandable, although unfortunate. If the instructor is so curious as to the time-consuming aspects of his exam, he could visit the examination room some time before the exam...
...Moliere's The School for Wives, by James A. Matisoff. The translation seems good enough, but why the Advocate should feel it is making a contribution to Harvard literary creativity by filling nine complete pages with a Moliere play or why anyone should be interested in reading it is difficult to understand...
...make room for the new visitor-Saudi Arabia's oil-rich and autocratic King Saud. It would be inconvenient, but inconveniences could be tolerated in Baden-Baden for a party prepared to pay $10,000 a day. While Willy mobilized, other Baden-Baden innkeepers embarked on the difficult task of persuading their own guests to double up in bathless bedrooms in order to take care of the princely overflow...
...open its tenth TV season, CBS's Studio One last week tackled the difficult chore of re-enacting the event from an uneven script called The Night America Trembled. There were some arresting scenes in the broadcasting studio, where the original sound man was back at his old Mars machines, but in trying to chronicle the reaction of different types of people in different situations, Night was forced to juggle more vignettes than it could handle, rarely managed to recapture the ensuing hysteria. Bogeyman Welles, who earned himself a national sponsor for his imagination, failed even...