Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until this maneuvering is completed, it is difficult to tell exactly how each club "section" will take shape and how many men will be "hundred per centers." A hundred per center is defined this year as a sophomore who has not received a first-list bid or joined Prospect Club--a cooperative organization holding an open Bicker--by 10 p.m. tomorrow night, Open House Night...
...Physicians can induce angina if, instead of relieving angina worries, they give the patient an exaggerated idea of the gravity of his condition. An electrocardiographic test or the sight of the consulting room may touch off an attack. "Treatment," says Dr. Briggs, loyal to his profession, "is very difficult...
...Pipe. Another system is to mount the nozzle at the end of a large, flexible coupling so it can switch from side to side like the combustion chamber of a liquid-fuel rocket. This is extremely difficult because the flexible pipe must carry the giant flow of hot, high-speed, high-pressure gas without leaking or burning out. But Ritchey implied that it can be done in an efficient way that causes little drag loss...
...Yale the only formidable opponent on the varsity's schedule. Army, which faces the Crimson Feb. 21, is supposed to be even stronger and deeper than the Bulldogs, and Dartmouth, an easy foe last year, could give McCurdy's men a difficult time in the coming dual meet on Feb. 6, at Hanover. Freshman Tom Laris, who covered two miles in an unbelievable 9:08.9 to finish third in the K. of C. meet, gives a hint of the Big Green's growing strength...
...snug, overstuffed parlor of early 19th century optimism, Poe played Hamlet to his own ghost, and it is sometimes difficult to separate the poet from the poltergeist who tipped over the stuffed birds, broke the bric-a-brac and put the ladies into a flutter. It is the thesis of Veteran Biographer Frances Winwar (Coleridge, the Wordsworths, Byron, Shelley, Keats) that Poe's "ghoul-haunted" imagination has contemporary validity. For all its outmoded idiom (castles, princesses, etc.) Poe's death-obsessed verse speaks true today. In this admirable biography, Author Winwar lets a hundred well-informed witnesses speak...