Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sure you give the impression that every difficult problem is being dealt with with far less sense and ability than could be done by you, who can have few of the facts, none of the experience nor understanding of the immense variety of cross difficulties encountered...
TIME will continue' to report all the world's important "difficult problems'' fully and impartially...
...past two years, the present owners of the Herald-Post have been diligent in an attempt to preserve for Louisville and the State of Kentucky this institution. It is a difficult and costly task for a newspaper to fight back to respectability and public acceptance...
...friend of the court was Crampton Harris of Birmingham, Ala., Senator Black's onetime law partner, who had been hired as special counsel for the Lobby Investigation. Said Attorney Harris: "It is difficult to conceive of any injury at all resulting from obedience to the [Senate] subpoena unless the complainant has sent messages of such a type that they should not be entitled to protection by any court. ... In no instance has a Congressional investigation ever held up to the public gaze documents of a private and personal nature." The Senate, argued its hireling, is the sole judge...
...doctor and might keep her mouth shut. She found, as she afterwards testified, the house a shambles, with straw littered in all the rooms and on the stairs, carpets spread out in the rain in the back yard, and the bath tub stained a curious yellow most difficult to scrub clean. After she had done her work, Mrs. Hampshire had pressed upon her by her Oriental creditor a blue serge suit with bloodstains all over it. Explained Ratanji, "I cut my finger opening a can." The waistcoat was so badly stained that even the frugal charwoman could think of nothing...