Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difficult to see what colleges the Report is talking about. According to Shannon McCune, "we don't want more than the usual quota of screwballs." But New College is not planned as a roost for "greasy grinds" either. Its students, according to McCune, should be "young men and women of imagination and curiosity--in many fields...
Furthermore, the much talked-of independent study, no matter how carefully introduced, could become a farce; students might interpret freedom from rigid course requirements as freedom from serious work. The New College planners are men of high professional standards, but their task is a difficult one: to create an intellectual "style of life" that is genuine in an atmosphere of independence...
...Board also noted that in the area between Mt. Auburn St. and Harvard Sq." the problem is quite difficult." It proposed shifting the line gradually from the MTA carbarn side of the street towards the easterly side, estimating that the buildings on that side are in "relatively poorer condition" and would therefore probably be replaced sooner...
...positive aspect for me. When I was younger, nothing quite so impressed a girl on a day at the beach as emblazoning her name on my forearm in bright, raised letters. It served to cement a number of relationships. Alas, the girls get older and wiser (and more difficult to impress), and dermographic penmanship no longer does the trick...
...also appearing before the Joint Congressional Economic Committee, bluntly warned that there was "never a more important time than now" for balancing the budget. Behind Martin's words: the U.S. Treasury Department's discovery that investors' fears of deficit and inflation are making it increasingly difficult to refinance the huge Government debt even at high interest rates (see BUSINESS...