Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grizzell pointed out that the distinction between the student who lists a college as his first choice and one who lists the same college as his second choice is in many cases an artificial one. Gummere agreed that a "very difficult" problem exists, but emphasized the fact that colleges are faced with the difficulty of choosing among swarms of satisfactory candidates and must make a distinction somewhere along the line...
John H. Carnahan '50, chairman of the Student Council Freshman Affairs Committee, asserted last night that, "an attempt will be made to surpass all previous smoker gaiety," but added that he felt "this is a difficult standard to beat...
...Thing. In Milwaukee, with his eyes on Wisconsin's April primary, Stassen swung again, including the G.O.P. "presidential pickers" in his haymaker. "It is their view," he said, "that the correct thing to do is to go through very elaborate operations of looking the other way; that the difficult, hard, controversial issues of the day should be avoided and the people should not be told our views upon them; that a long vacation trip should be taken admiring mountains and lakes and rivers and flowers and crops and livestock. These riders of regal reaction hold that a position...
Relapsing malaria is difficult to cure because the tiny parasites that cause the disease lurk in the viscera, where they are hard to reach with drugs. SN 13,274 is the best of a long series of drugs that researchers have developed as improvements on quinine and atabrine. Dr. Elderfield hopes that supplies of the drug will soon be available for nearly half a million ex-G.I.s who have had relapses of malaria...
With an occasional exception, the writing does not shine. Exceptions: George Orwell's deadly attack on the gibberish-jargon of political and literary cliche-journalism, calculated to give hacks the world over the stammers and the shakes; Dylan Thomas' intoxicated poetry, difficult and dense but flashing sparks of overwhelming insight...