Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plans to solve the pressing problem that many brilliant students are severely handicapped in the medical field, where schooling is so difficult and expensive as to exclude outside work, are occupying the attention of the Medical School, Dean C. Sidney Burwell revealed today in his annual report...
...propagandized more than anything else; they demand a two-sided presentation of thorny questions and willingness on the part of purveyors of information to let them make up their own minds. An application of this theory to tonight's affair should have been made. It would not have been difficult to add to the list of speakers a rebel sympathizer who would dwell upon the Fascist solution of the Spanish struggle. It might even have been possible to advance one more step and invite a detached observer whose particular interest centered upon the international complications arising out of the civil...
This put the father, England's future George V, in a difficult position when he faced the Great Queen, his grandmother, and she demanded that his newborn second son be given as his first name "Albert." Victoria had tried to get the future King Edward VIII christened with Albert as his first name, and the future King George V had managed to tuck it in second, but after the way Queen Victoria had been annoyed on Dec. 14 it became impossible to resist her will and the baby became "Prince Albert," later "Prince Albert, Duke of York" (premature headlines...
Chlorpicrin is a lung injurant which incidentally causes vomiting, strangulation and temporary blindness. It was difficult to guard against chlorpicrin in the War because none of the chemicals except charcoal in the gas-mask canister would remove it from the entering...
...alleged reason for the many divorces of today is "incompatibility," and it would seem to us that any course which can aid a man and a woman to make a go at that very difficult branch of living is exceptionally valuable. Since men are needed as well as women to make a happy marriage, and since we are sure that if the editors of the "Crimson" took the trouble to investigate, they would find that marriage is an aim of more than a few of the students, we suggest that they do not attempt to mock a lecture course offering...