Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been supposed, this subject requires quite an extensive study of the evidences from zoological classification, embryology, paleontology, and geographical distribution of both the ancient and the present relations of man. This is done in Anthropology A without requiring too much detail which would be boring as well as more difficult. On the whole, the lectures are interesting and even amusing to some, while the reading includes selections from such authorities as Darwin and Neman, both of which are well worth while and not too technical...
...prove his point. A spur to his arguments was the uncomfortable fact that I. P. & P. had a four-year contract to supply Publisher William Randolph Hearst with newsprint at a price range of $50 to $55 a ton, and breaking a contract with Publisher Hearst is a difficult matter...
...trained, makes the voices of the schooled actors who play with him seem prosy and lifeless. He has a fine time swaggering in Petruchio's pointed shoes, but his wife outplays him. She proved in Coquette that in spite of 20 years in silent stories she could talk a difficult emotional role better than most contemporary stage actresses. Now she is Katherine from head to heels?a stormy, pretty vixen with just a shadow of pout left to remind you that she was once called "America's Sweetheart." Lucky children will be taken by wise parents to see this Taming...
...Shell Union Oil Corp., which, although a Royal-Dutch-Shell subsidiary, is third largest U. S. oil producer, Shell Gasoline represented foreign competition in a particularly acute form. Most of the Shell Gasoline has been imported from Venezuela whence it can be sold in the U. S. at prices difficult for U. S. oilmen to duplicate...
Those who have attempted to follow Boston censorship through the intricate maze of reasoning which decides the fate of cultural efforts in the City across the Charles find it a difficult task to justify the logic of its latest pronunclamentos. The injustice of the "Strange Interlude" debacle and the growing list of banned books, as burlesque shows and arty magazines proceed unmolested, is almost as inexplicable as the astounding quiescence which greets the presence of Bertrand Russell in Boston...