Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some of your TIME-worn adjectives, it is difficult for me to understand how we Southerners can be both "rednecked" and "lily-white" at one and the same TIME...
...English Department would be inadequate, at best, if it had to hire men who wanted only to teach freshman English to engineering students. On the other hand, a 600-man liberal arts college (that is the number of students in Lehigh's Arts and Sciences College) would find it difficult to offer the salary and facilities which Lehigh, as a larger institution, can give to English instructors who are willing to spend a small amount of their time teaching the engineers...
...programs" (three years spent at a liberal arts college, followed by two years at an engineering school, sometimes hundreds of miles away) seems to make more sense as it is set up at Lehigh. The great drawback of the usual three-two program is that students who find it difficult to tear up roots at the end of their junior year refuse to move on and, instead, stay where they are and graduate in applied science, dropping out of engineering altogether. By providing the "three" and the "two" on the same campus, Lehigh encourages the undertaking and completion of more...
...group like the Brown and White is in an understandably difficult position trying to recruit writers in a university where most undergraduates are studying engineering or business, even though course credit is given for work on the semi-weekly newspaper...
...crisis. The various about-faces it has taken recently, however, indicate only that Secretary Dulles is not thinking in terms of extrication, but rather of justification. The problem of denying that we actually allowed our policy to be dictated by a weak ally may be a more difficult one than the actual avoidance of war, but it is not an issue designed to unite America...