Word: difficultly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difficult to remember any two foregatherings of the nations which are in greater contrast than this present conference and that which has gone down in history as the Dawes Conference. There was politics and to spare in the Plan which was drawn up in 1924, but for sheer horse-trading no meeting of the representatives of the nations in recent years has compared with this...
...course the subject of sex relations is one on which it is difficult to reason without overcoming strong and almost inborn prejudices. Nevertheless there is little to be gained in the long run by suppressing vital facts. Both Galileo and Darwin were bitterly reviled when they opposed traditional ideas with scientific discoveries. Yet their work is the basis of modern physics and biology...
Custom house officials are not the only men faced with difficult problems. The authorities of Somerville are at present considering a petition of Tufts College asking for the use of its tennis courts and golf links on Sunday afternoons between two and six o'clock. For in spite of last fall's referendum permitting professional sports on the Sabbath there still exists a relic of the Blue laws which forbids any athletics within 1000 feet of a church building...
Playing on a course rendered doubly difficult by recent rains the Crimson golf team rolled up a total of 39 points in the first half of the telegraphic match with the University of Oregon yesterday...
Conditions were excellent with scarcely any wind, and as a result several good scores for the difficult course were turned in. Phillips Finlay '31, playing number one man on the Harvard team, was low man for the day, getting a 73 in his match with Chesley whom he defeated...