Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This was difficult, since British editors felt they had to print and British news agencies felt they had to distribute such information as that in the House of Commons last week Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's Cabinet was shouted at by War-time Prime Minister David Lloyd George in words which could scarcely fail to vex Il Duce. "Stand up to Mussolini!", roared the Welshman. "Earn some respect for Britain! ... I'd rather have Italy's anger than Italy's contempt." As they left town for England's long Easter holiday, rusticating members...
...franchise on celebrations of the British Empire's past. To make a dull picture about the 1886 building of the Canadian Pacific Railway through the Rockies, climaxed by the fight between Canadian Pacific's William Cornelius Van Home and Great Northern's James Jerome Hill, sounds difficult. Silent Barriers-for which Director Milton Rosmer took cast and crew to Revelstoke, B. C. and endangered all their lives to photograph a forest fire-makes it look discouragingly easy. With the exception of a few shots of the fire, mountain peaks and raging rapids, the picture contains nothing that...
Inaugurating competition in skiing among the "Big Three", the University ski team will meet Princeton and Yale in downhill and slalom in Tuckerman's Ravine on April '1. Next Sunday the "A" team will race in the annual "Inferno" down Mt. Washington, the most difficult downhill race held in the east...
...often difficult to make a spider spin its web. Placing the spider on a table, Fowler harasses it to the point of fury with a pencil. The spider then drops off the table edge, spinning a web above it, which is handled with tweezers and a telescopic eyepiece...
Since conditions in the ionosphere are changing constantly it is necessary to take continuous observations over long periods of time in order to obtain representative records. This is difficult to accomplish by manual means except at prohibitive cost. For this reason, Dr. H. R. Mimno of the Graduate School of Engineering, developed special automatic devices to be used for the control of the Cruft Laboratory ionosphere research station. By means of these devices, records can be obtained without the attendance of an operator...