Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Personally, I am for the sacred sanctions of the kitchen knife.* M. Blum is not the master, to send the people to the slaughterhouse." Unwilling to let this remark go unanswered, the judge stood up, leaned across the bench and shouted at M. Maurras: "M. Blum is in a difficult position. If he is for war, you say he deserves the kitchen knife. If he is against war, he will be accused of being a coward in giving way before your threats." Then the judge perfunctorily fined Editor Maurras $13, sentenced him to eight more months in jail. The hatred...
...White House one morning last week with a party of men in two groups. One group represented 85% of U. S. railroad operators; the other, 20 of the 21 standard U. S. railroad unions. What President Roosevelt had asked for and what the two groups had after months of difficult negotiation given him was the first national agreement ever made in the U. S. governing the disposition of employes who lose their jobs or are otherwise adversely affected by technological improvements and increased efficiency in industry. Virtually all the nation's major railroads had agreed to pay financial compensation...
...substitute drugs on rats, dogs and monkeys. He has found that several morphine substitutes invented by Dr. Small and others are better than morphine because they cause less vomiting and constipation, depress respiration less than does morphine. But "whether any of the substances possess addicting properties is very difficult to determine on animals, although efforts are being made to study this aspect of the problem on dogs and monkeys. However, the final test will have to be made on the human patient, and here [we have] the invaluable assistance of the U. S. Public Health Service...
...policy to give our stockholders full information at all times. . . ." Prepared to slog through the usual corporate platitudes, Container stockholders opened their eyes wide at what followed: "We recognize that while matters of considerable importance will be submitted at the Annual Stockholders' Meeting in Chicago it may be difficult or impossible for many of our Eastern stockholders to attend this meeting because of distances involved. Therefore, I cordially invite you, or your duly accredited representative, to meet with me ... on Tuesday, May 26th, at the New York offices of the Company. . . . Please understand that this will be a wholly...
With the bases loaded John Adzigian took Collier's difficult grounder and tossed it in the direction of second base. Tom Bilodeau raced over fast, took the ball in his bare hand, sailed over the bag, and threw off balance to John Sullivan on first retiring the side...