Word: difficultly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...apparatus arrived. No arrest was made. The Mayor was merely testing a new device calculated to make life more difficult for false alarmists, who, in New York City alone, call for firemen 8,000 times a year, at $300 a call. When Mayor Walker turned the handle a siren screeched at passersby, a camera on the pole over-head snapped his picture several times for the Rogues Gallery. Photographers pleaded with him to do it again...
Calvin Coolidge, autobiographer for Cosmopolitan magazine, interviewed in Manhattan last week, was asked if he liked to write. "I don't," he said. "Oh, I don't find it so difficult to sit and write about something that I know very well, such as my own life, but a career of writing...
John Norton Smith is an extremely dour Scot from Fifeshire where normally he is a carpenter*. No brilliance attends his game but only the grimmest determination. His idiosyncrasies: chalking the face of his wooden clubs with blue chalk, waxing the handle of his irons before the difficult shot. To Cyril Tolley who won it at Muirfield nine years ago again went the championship. He, a links behemoth, has obtained most fame from his prodigious drives. In 1923 at Troon he drove to the green on a 350-yard hole. Last week his drives were still spectacular and, rare...
...well known fact that certain departments of Harvard are less difficult than certain others. Every one knows, for example, that the Philosophy and English Departments are more difficult than the Social Ethics and Anthropology Departments. Not only are the majority of courses within the "snap" departments easy, but worse still, these departments are more lenient than the other departments in recommending seniors for a degree. Herein lies the evil of the system. Conferring a degree upon one senior and refusing to confer a degree upon another means that the authorities of Harvard College believe that the one senior has obtained...
Furthermore class spirit as such would be extremely difficult to construct after all members of the Senior class have been split up into definite and isolated groups. A Freshman is generally eager to make friends; he enlarges his circle of acquaintance beyond that of his past schoolmates to that of his class as a whole. The Senior on the other hand, especially if he has lived with the same group for three years is not as ready to meet the boy from across the hall. He has his friends, interests, and he has divisional examinations to keep his mind occupied...