Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...behind, in identical Alfa-Romeos, came his two countrymen, Count Brivio and Dr. Giuseppe Farina. After the first few laps the crack-ups and collisions which the crowd had come to see showed no signs of materializing. Instead, the monotony of a beautifully driven race on a course too difficult for real speed was punctuated only by the iron voice of the world's most powerful address system, telling the crowd, picnicking on the roof of the bright blue club house or milling around the huge infield, how far Nuvolari was ahead, and how this or that individual...
...basked under the liberalism of Eliot, outlived the Lowell changes, and stood ready to welcome President Conant. Mother Advocate has twice sent her sons off to war, and has herself endured the aftermath's of three. For her, life has not been easy going. It has been a difficult battle to survive the blows of depressions and censorship, predudice and intolerance. During her lifetime lesser publications have sprung up, lived for a brief period and fallen by the wayside. But the rather remarkable vitality of old Mother Advocate is not a quirk of pure fortune. That today she may look...
With the exception of Frank Morgan and Stepin Fetchit, the supporting cast is mediocre. Given a difficult role as Shirley's light-fingered grandfather, Morgan plays with excellent restraint...
First arbiter in this dispute involving 40,000 square miles of territory was Spain's King Alfonso XIII in 1910. He soon admitted that the problem was too difficult for him, suggested "direct negotiations" between the two Republics. After much wrangling they agreed to confer in 1924, pledged themselves to submit to the U. S. President issues on which they could not agree. Now 12 years after this agreement, they have got as far as the White House...
...graph, charting this parallel record of the expanding use of liquor with the general upward trend in automobile deaths, becomes its own commentator and manifestly makes it difficult . . . to successfully challenge the conclusion that an increased consumption of alcoholic beverages must be regarded as a definite factor in the endlessly growing record of automobile tragedy...