Word: easier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British elections. He is not to be blamed for the too early convocation of the committee. But confidence throughout Europe has received a great blow from the dilatory tactics of the Germans. The task of the Germans in trying to satisfy a divided public at home is not made easier by the division among the Allies themselves, and the uibbling over minutiae which has made this conference so different from the meetings of the Dawes Committee...
Defensively the team has acquitted itself creditably, having handled 403 chances in the field with only 22 errors for an average of .945. Prior is again in the fore with a mark of .989, but his task of covering the initial sack is admittedly easier than that of his mates around the hotter sections of the diamond. McGrath at short has fielded for .920 while F. E. Nugent '29 as second has also kept above the .900 mark...
...connections with officials, or party associations, remains a daily problem for the newspaper man. Inevitably he comes into intimate personal contact with political leaders and men of affairs and relationships of confidence and sympathy grow up which it is difficult and often extremely embarrassing to disregard. It may be easier to defy a corporation than a golfing partner at the country club...
...their refutation signed by Engineer Johnson. Now, for some curious reason he has spoken again. Nebraskans recalled that Engineer Johnson had not been allowed to build the capitol, that Architect Goodhue had let the contracts and dominated the construction.* This time the capitol commission and other defendants found it easier to combat Engineer Johnson for the capitol had arisen in the prairie and offered tangible evidence. Potent among the defendants was Manhattan Architect Francis L. S. Mayers of the firm of Mayers, Murray and Phillip (Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue Associates), successors to Architect Goodhue. Mr. Mayer's firm has completed...
According to President Lowell, the courses realized by students to be easier than average "lower the standard for everything". He gave as examples in this connection, although with no discredit to the men who gave them, the courses in Geology and Fine Arts given by the late Professors Shaeler and Norton, respectively. Speaking of this, President Lowell declared, "Any courses which are regarded by the students as distinctly easier than the others demoralize the whole system. One must be very careful that if one has a course that is more attractive than others, one makes this harder, thereby keeping...