Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Difficult to Budget...
...this argument, too, can be at least partially challenged. It is difficult to run a large and sprawling organization, such as the Athletic Department, on a tight budget. For one thing, nobody can predict in advance the extent of the income to be derived from football gate-receipts. This depends on team performance, weather, and other such imponderables. It is too easy to be harsh about H.A.A. finances; and it is sometimes unfair...
...town and the university generally have little to do with each other and it is difficult not to notice the absence of the type of stores which usually spring up around a university. Bethlehem is simply not a "college town...
After the standard set by Starbuck, it would be difficult for poetry in any single edition of a magazine to look good. James Wright, in "The Thieves," has filled four stanzas with round and rolling sounds, which, appeaing as they sometimes are when taken one or two phrases at a time, present confusion together. However, two poems by Stephen Sandy come to rescue readers from the rain of apples in Wright's poem. Both are very tightly written, exotic pieces: "Moulay Ismail and King Louis' Daughter," and "Near Marrakech." The second of these is particularly ingenious and vivid...
Asserting that "communication" of the parking rules was a difficult matter, Mrs. Wheeler proposed that printed pamphlets be mailed out with parking tickets and that stickers bearing the new rules be attached to present parking signs...