Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although Pusey again seemed to indicate that Harvard would in the future have to expand to meet the rising number of applicants, he nevertheless, added that the private universities must "work for quality in an increasingly difficult situation...
...balanced, for example, against the record of 174 Harvard men who are president or directors of the country's hundred largest industrial corporations, the University's eight Nobel prize winners, four senators, twenty-five congressmen, and three governors, to mention only the most prominent. It is then indeed difficult to believe in the 'red' reputation of a university which has been described as the the "last refuge of the Puritan...
...safer than the road, and the road is safer than the driver. The car is easier to make safe because there is a new model every year. The highway is more of a permanent investment. But the driver is hardest to get at. It is extremely difficult to change his attitude...
...Peale: "There is a very peculiar characteristic in human nature, and that is our inability to forgive ourselves. We do wrong, we ask God to forgive us, and God does forgive us. But it is far more difficult to get ourself to forgive ourself . . . A normal, strong, well-adjusted mind will . . . say, 'God has forgiven me, I have done everything I can to make this matter right, it's in the past, it's washed out, it's all over and done . . .' I sometimes think it was a very wise procedure in the mind...
...permits them if there is danger to the mother's health or a likelihood that the child will be subnormal. In practice, reports Dr. Pommerenke, it is usually enough for a woman to say that her husband is out of work, or that it will be difficult for the family to feed another mouth...