Word: difficultly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House Plan next year the physical limits of the present buildings will have been reached. While there remains a small margin of expansion in the fact that the rooms are not always used up to their full capacity, to take advantage of this small leeway would prove very difficult and would involve many undesirable features. Otherwise, the only recourse would be to multiply the number of afternoon classes, already unpopular among both professors and students...
Lawrence was not popular with the officers of the Air Force which he joined to "escape" publicity. As may be imagined, he made it extremely difficult for them and in time he was unceremoniously thrown out and much to his displeasure transferred to the Tank Corps. How he got back into the Air Force has always been something of a mystery-and here is the explanation. While he was attached to the tank outfit, the French war in the Riff was at its height. One day the French military attaché appeared at the Foreign Office in London and announced...
...large, round sum is two billions, difficult to comprehend. Not until the U. S. entered the World War did Congress appropriate as much as two billions per annum to run the Government. As recently as 1900 there were only two billions of U. S. currency in circulation...
...Committee. Election of R. C. Holmes, President of Texas Corp., to head a committee of 80 oil-executives was last week announced by the American Petroleum Institute. The Holmes committee is charged with the difficult and vital function of determining some method of restricting oil production. The main committee is divided into four regional committees...
...public. At 2 o'clock Professor John C. Slater '24 will speak on "Recent Developments in our Theories of Atomic Structure." Professor Slater is a leader in the field of theoretical physics and has worked in Bohr's laboratory in Copenhagen. He has an unusual gift in making seemingly difficult and abstruse subject appear very easy and clear...