Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...July 31, 1933). Last week found him at the head of an irregular army estimated at 200,000 preparing to join forces with a disgruntled white settler from Italian Somaliland, a onetime Boer Colonel named Siwiank, to try a surprise attack on General Graziani's flank from the difficult waterless lands of Ogaden Province...
Patience was the mainspring of Benito Mussolini's policy last week as his troops wormed forward through difficult terrain. First Japan, then Germany quit the League of Nations on a fraction of the provocation Geneva offered to Rome last week, but Il Duce kept playing the Geneva game. He scarcely expected, however, to take any tricks before the British general election is over...
...does not repress his instincts and abilities, yet does not annoy other human beings. Teaching the infant, child and adolescent such emotional and intellectual disciplines is the hardest job that a parent has. Dr. Kugelmass gives many a useful pointer in his manual. Dressing and undressing, he shows, "are difficult techniques for the young child. Each bit of raiment requires a special procedure. If the child is given the freedom of trial and error in the manipulation of his clothing and shoes, he will gradually learn to dress. Parental encouragement, guidance and instruction are more desirable than impatient dressing...
...bottom of the ore body was 100 feet below the earth's surface. If it oscillated in a circle 20 times, then the ore contained one ounce of gold to the ton. Judging how far below the earth the top of an ore body might be was more difficult but Mr. Haas could make an estimate if he was careful to hold the indicator in his right hand and keep the fingers of his left hand pressed against his solar plexus...
...difficult to draw a picture of University officialdom in so short a space, but these outlines may serve to introduce Harvard men to characters who frequently appear in any report of Cambridge life...