Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hugenberg one of the most efficient machines for moulding public opinion in the world. He needed it last week, for he was attempting to force through by popular referendum a law denying Germany's War guilt, forbidding German acceptance of the Young plan. His task was as difficult as would be repealing the 18th Amendment in the U. S. Plebiscite. According to the Weimar Constitution of the German Republic, a law can be passed by popular referendum in the following steps: 1) A vote of 1/10th of the entire German electorate (4,000,000 ballots) assures the immediate consideration...
...checks. On the basis of the Senate vote, Samuel Roy McKelvie, onetime Governor of Nebraska and the Board's wheat member, was the least popular Hoover nominee. The President had searched longest to find a wheat man for his Board and Mr. McKelvie's was the last difficult appointment. Twenty-seven Senators voted against his confirmation. Their complaint was that he was not a real wheat farmer, that he knew nothing about wheat farming, that he was out of sympathy with Federal aid for those who did produce this crop. His most bitter opponent was his fellow Nebraskan...
Laymen found the inverted pyramids difficult to visualize; architects thought they would be difficult to realize. The following obstacles were anticipated...
...view of the unsettled condition in the Harvard forward line and the newness of the Harvard backfield combinations, it is very difficult correctly to judge Harvard's current strength. Dartmouth, as yet untried in the heat of superior competition, too presents a quantity difficult to gauge...
...University soccer team will face the most difficult opponent which it has encountered thus far this season when it encounters the strong Dartmouth team on the field behind the Business School at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon. Led by Captain A. M. Stollmeyer '30 the University players have been undefeated thus far this season, winning from Bridgewater Normal School 7 to 2: Syracuse 1 to 0; and Worcester Polytechnic Institute 3 to 1. Captain Stollmeyer, D. M. Frame '32 and H. H. Broadbent '32 have been consistent point winners in the games played...