Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were policemen and firemen seeking in order that they could hold Sunday parades. The law has suffered many similar modifications and encroachments in the last 260 years, some of which are not easily explained. The distinction between clamdigging and seaweed gathering is a fine one, and it is difficult to see why it is illegal to play golf but not miniature golf...
Shot back new Chamber President Philip M. Talbott, senior vice president of Woodward & Lothrop, Inc., a Washington, D.C. department store: Wilson's "pains do not refute our findings. Our members are not all rich. Many of them are having a difficult time making any profits at all in the face of high taxes...
...honors sections: assigned reading is longer and better, discussion is therefore more fruitful, and papers are fewer and better-prepared. Next year remedial sections will be made optional instead of compulsory for poor students. Harvard cannot help receiving both good and bad freshman writers every year and laziness is difficult to remedy in any course. With further text and course revision, however, General EducationA might be able to train poor and undeveloped writers without boring them...
...freshman team also travels to Hanover tomorrow, and it, too, should have a difficult time gaining a win. The Yardlings, crushed by Williams in their last outing, have two victories this year against five defeats...
...kind of realist to write about people with romantic souls is a most tricky and difficult business. . . . There does not seem to be any way at all of writing about them except satirically or angrily. Once a writer's eye gets chilly about their beautiful souls he is like the only sober man at a drunken party and the only decent thing for him to do is either to get blind drunk with the rest of the boys or else go home and scrub himself clean in a raging satire on the whole boiling lot of them...