Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Possibly I don't possess the true "sportsman's" sense of consistency, but I find it a bit difficult to follow your article under Conservation (TIME...
...little soap with latherless cream if the latter is the medium preferred by the shaver; shaving with the blade tilted toward the face when the blade is new and/or sharp to make a smaller angle with the skin and thus to minimize skin irritation. This technic is admittedly difficult to combine with a slanting stroke. Two safety razors now on the market are found to overcome automatically this last mentioned difficulty. E. R. WEIDLEIN...
...whom Nazis have clapped into a prison camp (TIME, Dec. 2), Dr. Hanfstaengl roared at Lady Listowel, "Ossietzky is a swine and a traitor!" Very earnestly last week Putzy testified, "I know Ossietzky is a traitor." "And do you think him also a swine?" asked Sir Patrick. "It is difficult. . . ." answered pensive Putzy, "It is difficult to say." In pressing Dr. Hanfstaengl's suit last week Sergeant-at-Law Alexander Martin Sullivan hotly called TIME "a publication of offensive scurrility directed against all manner of persons!" Graduating from Harvard with the Class of 1909, enormous Putzy just after...
...essays, written at different periods, tend to become repetitious, and since Ellis' underlying argument is not convincingly proved. Ellis considers Rousseau one of the most influential men in history. He carefully recapitulates the arguments that hold this influence has been pernicious, admits that ''it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that . . . Rousseau has represented a backward movement in civilisation." Rousseau's influence "tended to depreciate the value of the mighty instrument of reason." By casting off restraints on emotion, it has led to an "unwholesome divorce between the extravagancies of feeling and the limitations of life...
...extremely difficult to understand the point of view of the masses, and this hit of falsely patriotic legislation is no doubt the result of suspicion and jealousy of the intelligent classes on their part. This attitude is also reflected in the actions of the Legion...