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Word: hardness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wilcox had no comment on the petition except to say that "starting a department or a committee is a hard thing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Seek General Studies Degree Program | 5/5/1969 | See Source »

...Harvard will have to work extremely hard this week to overcome the problems that plagued it in Philadelphia. It must also remember that Penn will not have to fight poor weather in Worcester, either...

Author: By Peter D. Lennon, | Title: Penn Whips Heavies; Ends Streak at 34 | 5/5/1969 | See Source »

Throughout Challenge's winter term, teachers shared many similar frustrations. The ideal and abstract conceptions put forth during Orientation did not seem to apply to te concrete situation of the classroom. Teachers found discipline hard to dispense having seldom before been in positions of authority...

Author: By Matthew Alexander, | Title: Rising to the Challenge, When September Comes | 5/5/1969 | See Source »

...formulas PACE prescribed for repairing Cleveland schools were hard for Clevelanders to take. At a time when the city's annual school budget was about $130 million, PACE estimated that all its proposed reforms would cost another $56 million--almost 45 per cent of the total school budget...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: The Calkins Saga -- A Second Chapter | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

Calkins was immediately cast in the role of crusading reformer challenging the entrenched party hacks. He ran an exhausting campaign, fought hard to shake a suburbanite-carpet-bagger image, and finally came in third out of six candidates. That was enough to get him a four-year seat on the Board...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: The Calkins Saga -- A Second Chapter | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

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