Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gist of the matter," he said, "is that it is difficult for a socialist government to devaluate; for if devaluation is to be successful, wage increases of large proportions should not be encouraged; and the influx of capital which is very helpful, if not absolutely necessary, is not forthcoming...
Figure skating tournaments are divided into free skating, in which competitors execute their own specialties, and school figures, selected by lot from 42 standard maneuvers with which all figure skaters are supposed to be familiar. Experts consider Champion Colledge's free skating repertoire more difficult than Sonja Henie's, especially her double-revolution jump which no other woman skater has ever tried in competition. Her next appearance on ice will be an exhibition at the Toronto Skating Carnival next week...
...spinning the dark threads of Wotan's fate. During the next four and a half hours Siegfried is speared in the back, his half-divine wife follows him onto the pyre and all Valhalla collapses in flames. Because Götterdämmerung is the longest and most difficult opera in Wagner's Ring, it is sung more rarely than the others. People squeezed into every available inch of standing room one afternoon last week when Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera gave Götterdämmerung the first of its two performances this season...
...voice so that every phrase told. She tossed her pretty head, fell in and out of love, made Massenet's shallow, adorable wanton come to life. In La Traviata she was a higher-minded harlot, pathetically resigning her love so as not to ruin him. She sang the difficult display-piece Sempre Libera with uncommon charm...
With an enrollment twice that of last year Professor Davidson's course is popular. His understanding of the right approach to the study of music has converted a former "snap" into a reasonably difficult subject. Seeing its merit proved, men interested in the esthetic side of music and would-be Freshman concentrators will be attracted next fall but repulsed at once because of the cut. One Professor and assistant to handle 125 men, let alone the present number of 300 is a task impossible to accomplish if any teaching standard is to be kept. Aside from Music 1, there...