Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hypnotist Cannon makes it abundantly clear that there is nothing mysterious or difficult about the technique. All that is necessary is for the subject to relax, drive all thought from his mind, fix his attention on some object (usually a bright light), listen to the operator's soothing suggestions of sleep. The hypnotic state resembles sleep except that the unconscious mind is in touch with the operator and can be swayed by his suggestions. Almost everybody, unless he is confident of being able to resist and does resist, can be hypnotized into the first "light" state; three persons...
...Vatican sanitation department. Dr. Milani, with eight colleagues of the Vatican staff and eight consultants, gave the Holy Father a thoroughgoing examination last month, found his condition ''satisfactory for his age." Chief trouble, Vatican attendants admitted, is that the Pope, once a sturdy mountain climber, finds it difficult not only to walk but to breathe easily. In all his daily activities he now is borne about in a sedan chair, or in his ceremonial sedia gestatoria (portable throne). Near the Benediction Hall, where Pius XI holds audiences, there has been set up behind a red curtain a portable...
TRANSITION'S editorial heading for its stories was PARAMYTHS, presumably meaning disordered or abnormal myths. That the sane human mind instinctively tries to communicate intelligible ideas and that the production of long stretches of gibberish is extremely difficult was proved by the fact that most of TRANSITION'S prose-writers kept breaking through into something like sense and good syntax...
...Most difficult problem in producing the Democratic Platform of 1936 was to make that document appear to be the legitimate offspring of the Democratic National Convention. When Franklin Roosevelt's chosen platform-maker, Senator Robert Wagner of New York, arrived last week in Philadelphia, he solemnly assured inquirers that he did not bring with him a platform ready-made at the White House. Some days earlier Democratic Senators had been shown the draft of the platform, but Senator Wagner had either left it behind in Washington or tactfully destroyed it. All that he brought to Philadelphia, hidden under...
...like it too much: Though I know it be a good proverb that the study of man be the candle of the Lord. And I was also glad to hear come from the President the value of character building in education; for I know, though this be a difficult and drippy subject, yet no wise man will doubt that learning without gentlemaness is a great failure. Yet I know this is one of the greatest failings of our entire educational system. Bless my soul, already ther are too many stuffy encyclopaedias without a warm thought...