Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overall agricultural prices. But, said Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith's Commodity Expert Harry B. Anderson: "Last week's rise in commodity indices is only flash-in-the-pan buying. With most grains and raw materials in oversupply, inflationary pressures are not very realistic and will be difficult to sustain...
With the ever-increasing number of applicants for admission to the College, the problem of choosing the best student becomes a progressively difficult one. This difficulty is intensified by the fact that many applicants do not receive an interview from a member of the Admissions Committee...
There is little reason why Radcliffe might not liberalize its rules in this day of merged activities. Her buildings would serve as welcome meeting places. It is also difficult to understand why alcohol will have a more potent effect on 'Cliffies if they drink it on their side of the common rather than on this. If Radcliffe is as much afraid of becoming absorbed into Harvard as she generally appears to be, she might well make it pleasant for girls to use her buildings, before the 'Cliffe becomes little more than a boarding house for wallflowers...
Edward Finnegan's Harry Hope is perfect; Judge Springer's Hickey--which is an even more difficult role--is very close to perfect. Edward Zang (Willie), Ralf Coleman (Joe) and Michael Lilenthal (Hugo) begin well and get better as they go along...
...poet, novelist, screenwriter; of cancer; in Los Angeles. In 1935, Missouri-born Zoe Akins won a Pulitzer Prize for her Broadway adaptation of Edith Wharton's The Old Maid, but despite her durable professional success she deplored "the tragedy of feminine careers." Writing for Hollywood was "not difficult," she said. "All you have to do is write six pages every day, then grab the money and run for the train...