Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Since then it has become the No. 1 event of the show. Last week cavalry officers from seven nations were entered in the jumping events. For the first international event on the program, for which competition lasted three nights, riders were judged on form after a succession of difficult individual and group jumps. In first place after the first night's performance were the French (Captain François Durand and Lieutenant Amador de Busnel), with 19 faults to 23 each for Chile, Great Britain and the U. S. Jumping in pairs the next evening, the French team...
...College awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree Oct. 10 to "Lord Tweed S. Muir, Governor-General of Canada." Few days after said John Buchan (Lord Tweedsmuir) upon receiving an honorary Doctor of Laws from Queen's University at Kingston, Ont.: "We are living in a confused and difficult world...
Major Berry's invitation to business men to prepare for the meeting of the Industrial Council in December leaves no doubt as to the future course of the New Deal. Difficult as it is to analyze the meaning of a Presidential election, Mr. Roosevelt does not seem to be far wrong in interpreting it as a commission to go ahead with industrial reorganization of the country...
More interesting and difficult work, however, is done by the mechanics in the scientific departments. Besides having to perform incredibly delicate and elaborate jobs the craftsmen must know enough engineering and science to be able to tell the researchers whether or not and in what way a projected machine will run. Professors and mechanics work together closely on the design and construction of aporata and the mechanics have a high degree of skill and esprit de corps...
...four years at Harvard have held the same generally undefined religious attitude as himself. This is the year 1936. In the years when the great flower we know as Harvard was still a tight little Puritan bud there was an enforced unanimity or religious sentiment that we nowadays find difficult to understand. Man was damned, utterly completely horribly and Calvinistically damned, and there might be no mistake about it. Michael Wigglesworth, graduate, and tutor at Harvard in the middle seventeenth century, showed God's judgment in his "Day of Doom...