Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last time the two teams met in the Bowl the weather was not nearly so bad, but nevertheless it was trying on the fans. There was such a thick haze in the skies, that at game time it was difficult to see the other end of the field. Harvard won that game...
...possible to compare Russian and American universities only in sciences and engineering, because "the other fields are so permeated with Marxism that it is difficult to compare them with their Western counterparts," Dodge declared. For example, in the elementary required courses, philosophy is a study of dialectic materialism, economics a study of Marxism, while history is confined to that of the communist party. "Surprised and Upset...
...pituitary gland at the base of the brain, Biochemist du Vigneaud succeeded in isolating oxytocin, which stimulates the uterus contractions of childbirth and starts the flow of milk. Then he took oxytocin apart and determined its chemical structure. Final step was to make it synthetically. This was an extremely difficult job, because oxytocin is a polypeptide, a protein-like compound made of eight amino acids, and probably the most complex substance ever synthesized. But Dr. du Vigneaud's synthetic hormone passed all tests, performing in living bodies exactly like the natural article...
There is also a good deal of other assorted information, some fascinating, some obvious. Cowboys sometimes found it difficult to get about 3,000 cows to swim a river. Steak was cheap (5? a pound). The Colt six-gun was invented by Samuel Colt. Bullwhackers had deplorable vocabularies. All this may be interesting. But a thought, as troublesome as Geronimo, persists in the reader's mind that the cowboy is perhaps best left as myth. William MacLeod Raine and Clarence E. (Hopalong Cassidy) Mulford (whom the authors call a "second-rate practitioner"), or even Zane Grey, that old rider...
...direction was rather difficult to judge. Blocking seemed adequate, and the movements of the actors on stage were natural enough. Throughout the performance, however, it seemed that van Itallie could have made more both of the parts and the situations...