Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have a report of my passage in the March 8 issue-"The first white man to enter Nevada passed on through"-"most important people passed through." Since the Senate has resolved to attract a more substantial citizenry I, and the other members of my profession, will find it exceedingly difficult to reject such a hospitable invitation. Perhaps we could be induced to hold our next annual convention in Reno...
Elektra is a difficult opera in which to make a debut. It is doubly hard on the concert stage, without costumes, scenery or action, with the orchestra playing full tilt on the platform instead of in the pit. Pauly, like all the other singers, rose formally to take her cues, sat down each time she had done, did little physical acting. But her voice was so evidently equal to the difficult score, her lines so deeply felt, that listeners forgot the lack of staging...
While ending the annual bout between six hundred weary students and Finer's analysis of the German bureaucracy, the April Hour Examination in Government 1 renews the instructors' difficult task of adjusting grades to the Lowell Distribution Curve. Adopted years ago after a scientific study of Freshman marks, the Curve has long served as the God which all Yardling markers must reverence. Although the high calibre of Government One bluebooks now soars above the scientifically established limits, section men are warned not to violate the Gospel according to Lowell. But changing conditions must make too rigid adherence to a static...
...Bruening said that the fundamental problems of democratic government are long and difficult of solution, and had been worked for unceasingly in Germany. Changing his tone, he observed that "they are easily solved under a totalitarian state," where no attempt is made to preserve the ideal of self-government...
...wouldn't?", he exclaimed. But although a life of leisure doesn't appear to be completely distasteful to Fuller, he is afraid that once in the movie city, he will be shoved aside with a long term contract and nothing to do but admire the scenery. Again it is difficult to visualize Fuller objecting to Hollywood scenery...