Word: easier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Well, if you think you can't get them ready, why don't you change to Sophocles and Thucydides?" suggested the tutor, much to the surprise of the student. "You will find Sophocles much easier than Plato, and Thucydides is only about half as long as Tacitus...
...tutor, such blindness is inexcusable, and where it is found, is evidence either of laziness, or of ignorance of or incapacity for his high office. It is much easier to prepare a student for a definite examination than to stimulate his intellectual curiosity and arouse him from mental lethargy. The first is the miserable job of that parisite upon the University, the tutoring school. The second is the high duty of the college tutor. It ought to be a cardinal rule with tutors that the divisional examinations be kept always in a subordinate position in their discussions...
...made easy of attainment by the new ruling class and difficult of access for the old one. Commissar Lunacharsky himself has admitted: "There are no rules against anyone being admitted [to the schools] but when the applicants are genuine proletarians the examiners are a little easier with their questions...
...sent fragments of the rocky butte, deadly as shrapnel, splintering among the Moorish tribesmen. The whole mountain, which is topped by the stronghold village of Bribane, was enveloped by the smoke of burning crops and villages and the fumes of exploding shells. Armored cars and cavalry advanced up the easier slopes, while battalion after battalion of infantry stormed the steep western salient like a rising tide, preceded by a deadly, frothing foam of shrapnel...
...some quarters it is believed that their withdrawal from Morocco will ease the situation and make French and Spanish success easier. It was even hinted that the Mannesmanns had been in some way connected with the mysterious support of Abd-el-Krim with money and arms. Indian and Egyptian Moslems are supposed to have contributed and there was one report that a submarine of unknown nationality delivered 28,000,000 pesetas to Abd-el-Krim...