Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years in which he was rooting his company into every cranny of Austria, pudgy Dr. Berliner took no chances with political investigation. With magnificent liberality he bribed every political group that might possibly make things difficult for him. The amount of the bribe evidently depended on his estimate of the relative political importance of the organization to be bribed. Examples...
Italy's success in conquering Ethiopia has put the British in a very difficult position, making it almost impossible for them to get out of the mess gracefully. The sanctions have failed to accomplish the desired effect, and popular opinion in England is up in arms against the Government...
...University of Wisconsin has not yet forgotten the 38-to-3 licking which Notre Dame's famed Four Horsemen inflicted on its football team in 1924. Still more difficult to forget is the fight between Football Coach Clarence Wiley Spears and Athletic Director Walter Ernest Meanwell, which ended last February in the dismissal of both (TIME, Feb. 24) and the threatened expulsion of Wisconsin from the Big Ten Conference. Last week Wisconsin hired young, handsome Harry Stuhldreher, quarterback of the Four Horsemen, as its athletic director and football coach, hoped he would soon make them forget both unhappy recollections...
...called "St. Grottelsex" group, coming from certain schools, is complicated by the fact that here, where large blocks apply, financial considerations as well as complications over splitting up the group, make the fair treatment of all the individuals involved, both within the group and outside, slow and difficult...
Meanwhile the campaign for unanimous support of music students on the petition goes on. Specifically the petition complains that music is so divided between the two buildings as to make access difficult, especially since the filing system in Harvard's main library is incomplete in this respect...