Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defunct women's division. "I'm the colonel and proud of it," disclosed a Mrs. Grace Lupp of Highland Park. "The auxiliary was organized two years ago, solely for political purposes. . . . We tried to keep it a clean organization, but we found it was very difficult. . . ." Willingly "Captain" Geraldine Nankervis explained the Legion's virtues: "It keeps our husbands out of beer gardens for one thing. Then, too, we know that when they're at their secret meetings they're not running around with other women...
Before voting, the Guildmen heard New York's Mayor Fiorello ("Little Flower") LaGuardia declaim: "I think the Pullman porters had some difficulties similar to yours. Like you, they are scattered all over the country, and some are on the road all the time, so that it is extremely difficult for them to assemble. Further more, they met a most stubborn resistance on the part of employers. Airmail and passenger-line pilots, like you, originally resented the suggestion that they join in a labor group. They are now affiliated with the American Federation of Labor...
...Statistical Association last fortnight no less than three went on record with loud warnings. Said Columbia University's Leland Rex Robinson: "Now hardly seems the time to pay high premiums for bonds. . . . The higher the grade of bond the greater the speculation in buying it now. It is difficult to see how the artificially low interest rates and bond yields . . . can much longer continue...
...woman. Women are stricken later in life than men. A first attack kills them more often than it does men. But, if a woman survives such a heart attack, she may expect to live three years longer than a man similarly stricken and surviving. Dr. Willius finds it "difficult to understand the reasons for the great discrepancy in incidence of coronary thrombosis between the two sexes. After a critical analysis of the known factors, one is obliged to seek a possible explanation in the presumable superior biologic heritage of the female...
Nanda Devi lies in a region difficult of approach in the headwaters of the Ganges. The mountain itself is technically hard, being of the precipitous Materhorn type and rising sharply from a plateau 15,000 feet in elevation...