Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This will pose a difficult financial problem for the University, cutting off a large source of income without replacing it. But if Harvard wishes to continue doing literally nothing about football, it should also be honest to its undergraduates and to the public by playing average teams and charging fair ticket prices...
David Lilienthal's resignation is not happy for the country. It will be difficult to find any man who can come close to equalling his insight into the problems of the AEC. But David Lilienthal can at least resign knowing that his reputation is clean and his job well done...
According to Sperry, it has been difficult for the faculty to agree on a definite program of religious instruction. He said he believes that a course on the development of religion in America would be of value. Some consideration has been given, he mentioned, to a General Education course on religion...
...progressive education which has stemmed from the inspiration of [John Dewey's] experiments at Chicago has produced a generation of sloppy-minded youngsters who can neither read nor write. His take-what-you-like educational system, with its repudiation of the discipline that comes with difficult study, has turned loose a citizenry that is an easy prey for demagogues...
...very difficult, Fairbank said, to ascertain how closely the Chinese adhere to the Russian political line. "Some Americans who have just returned from Peking told me the Chinese Communists are still very nationalistic...