Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through the long development of the game of football there have come three methods of advancing the ball, namely, kicking, passing, and running. Any one of these can be stopped by defensive measures. As the threat of all three increases, the problem of the defense becomes increasingly difficult...
Your cover (Feb. 17, Hitler's Leni Riefenstahl) beat the cables easily in vividness of depiction, but you made it extremely difficult for persons in the Puritan highlands to keep their minds on their work...
...world record of 58 ft. 1½ in. To track addicts this was of small importance. Equally unexcited were they over the broad jump in which the winner fell almost 18 in. short of the record, the 1,500-metre walk in which it was so difficult to tell whether the contestants were walking or running that the judges disqualified the first two finishers for safety's sake. They were only slightly more interested when Dimi Zaitz, whose prodigious love for bananas is supposed to account for his strength, out-shotputted Champion Jack Torrance; when bespectacled Chuck Hornbostel...
...against a $13,888,000 profit in 1934. Built around Fleischmann yeast, Royal baking powder and Chase & Sanborn coffee, Standard Brands made some $87,750,000 in its six full years of business life. But the "Standard" brands have, in effect, standard prices which both competition and custom make difficult to raise. Consequently Recovery, with higher costs, has brought lower profit margins and a decreased profit. The common closed last week at $17.62, about 18 times 1935 earnings of 97? a share...
...would rather paint pictures or turn and glaze pottery. For the Department of Justice last week he had nearly completed two knife-narrow panels showing a prisoner entering and being released from a Federal penitentiary. Possibly none of WPA's artists-on-relief could have handled so difficult a space problem so easily...