Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freshmen who start to investigate the first year at Harvard tonight have an interesting but difficult problem ahead of them. While no one will deny that the year needs a number of constructive steps, the proposal of specific remedies is a vastly more difficult question...
...people were hogs the problem of relief would be as easy as dumping slops into a trough. But people are not hogs and hence relief is a very difficult, complex affair. What makes it even more so is the relatively small number of jobless who once made a living with their heads instead of their hands-white-collar folk who are too proud to repair streets, too sensitive to sit at home eating their hearts out on the dole. The relief administrator's problem is to find occupation for them which is socially useful, yet does not compete with...
Standing on the fifth fairway of the Augusta (Ga.) National Golf Course, playing his last round in the Augusta Masters' Tournament, Golfer Gene Sarazen last week made the greatest shot of his career. Hit with a spoon, from a difficult downhill lie, his ball flew smoothly to a green 220 yd. away. It rolled slowly toward the hole. It dropped...
Never a crusader, the Times became the greatest newspaper in the U. S. by the simple but difficult procedure of giving more news than any other. It won the first Pulitzer Prize in 1918 for publishing many official War documents and statesmen's speeches in full. Often it was dull, but never incomplete. It shunned comic strips, and breezy feature stories but was the first newspaper in the U. S. to offer rotogravure...
Educaion has developed so much during the last decades that several fields may treat a subject from different angles. Yet a student at Harvard finds it immeasurably difficult to take advantage of these opportunities today. For instance, if a man becomes interested in color through Philosophy 6, he may desire to learn what Physics Psychology, and fine Arts have to say on the subject. How many men are able to surmount the hurdles of requirements at present to do this? If Latin is required, a man may have to sacrifice one of these other courses which would be of more...