Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horrified!" she snapped. "If industry depends on the little hand, then it had better stop. It is difficult for me to speak without emotion, and if the Duchess of Atholl had her way, English children would still be up the chimney and down the mine...
Experimentation was largely limited to new performers who come cheap compared with new productions. Of the 19 new singers, only two achieved a real success. One was Australia's Marjorie Lawrence, who at 28 and with only three years' opera experience undertook the difficult Brünnhildes in Die Walküre and Götterdäm-merung, made news in the latter by mounting her horse, actually galloping from the stage in accordance with Wagner's ambitious directions. The other was Sweden's Gertrud Wettergren, who proved herself a sure singing actress, strode...
...fright, fallen stomachs, tight corsets, constipation, poor ventilation, overwork. Says he : "Probably the most logical view was . . . a long-continued iron deficiency in the diet." Despite those guesses "the reasons for the disappearance of chlorosis remain in darkness, and with its disappearance the explanation of its etiology becomes increasingly difficult...
...causes a whisper to be heard in five continents. But the alphabet and the multiplication-table are unchanged. Changeless also is the need that use of these tools should be taught in the elementary schools with utmost simplicity and absolute certainty. Not different is the need-though greatly more difficult the achievement-that the essential contributions of modern science, the principal values of man's recent learning, should be brought to equal clarity of statement and instruction in our colleges...
Earning for himself the undisputed right to the title of most talented in the cast, John C. Develin '38 delighted the spectators with his tap dancing routine and the difficult juggling feats...