Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other Pitman models on the same floor show University and town buildings around what is now Harvard Square as they were in 1667 and 1775. Nearly 900 hand-carved buildings in the 1936 miniature stand on a 100 pound 11 x 4 feet rectangular base. The most difficult of these to make, according to the artists who worked on the model, was the replice, of massive and Victories Memorial Hall, in the Lillipulian Version, its 305 feet length is reducted to about six inches, with the spire rising to a height of 4 1/2 inches. The spire, and buttresses...
...difficult to say whether the Faculty's declaration opposing dueling had any effect on that noble practice itself. At any rate, by 1805 the popularity of dueling in the United States was waning; in that year dueling at Harvard ceased...
...This is a peculiar situation here," he continued. "One faster in the number of transfers we have had in the past is that the medical school is probably the means of medicine. That makes it difficult competition for a small, young school...
...most part, Washington reporters accepted Ike's assurances; they had no quarrel with the broad outlines of security that he had sketched out. But in Charlie Wilson's administrative order they saw a different problem. At the Pentagon, the brownout had already made even routine information difficult to get. Newsmen did not think that "time," as Charlie Wilson suggested, would work out the troubles. They felt that the troubles were inherent in the terms of the new policy, which used security as an excuse to withhold news...
...solved all its economic problems. There are still an estimated 2,000,000 unemployed in a work force of 20 million. Agriculture is still largely backward, and industry suffers from lack of capital and from a feudal fiscal system, in which varying and discriminatory interest rates make it difficult for small businessmen to operate. The textile industry, which has seen many of its markets disappear behind the Iron Curtain, is in bad shape, last year slumped to 117 on the national production index (1938 = 100), compared to 180 for industry as a whole. Such big tax-supported state monopolies...