Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First this perfect criminal, being supremely intelligent would murder all the dangerous politicians. To do this without public suspicions will be very difficult, but hardly impossible for one such as we have described. Even should it be gossipped that the many deaths were unnatural, other dangerous figures might find it desirable to retire...
...patients feel ill, he stops to make a personal examination and even prescribes a remedy. Thus he inevitably loses to Dr. Hathaway, who can interpret symptoms by intuition as his legs strain for the tape. The latter also knows that the best way to answer difficult questions is to disappear immediately into the main building where he can have his rubdown, free from inquisitive measle victims. It really is a tragedy that he is ineligible for Eddie Farrell's team...
...automobile manufacturers who can make armored cars and tanks, and even the owners of oil wells and wheat fields, which are no less essential in wartime? Speaking of this problem as it affects the investor who is looking over his portfolio of stocks, Mr. Callender says, "it is difficult to find an industry that would not in some way contribute to success in war, directly or indirectly; and there seems more idealism than logic in the attitude of those who would shun he making of bombs or shells or hand grenades while approving the production of the motor cars...
...better bill than now graces the University screen would be difficult to demand of any two feature movie programs. "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer" has been justly praised for its spectacular melodrama, picturesquely framed against the forbidding north Indian mountain passes. Very roughly adapted from the successful book of similar title, it proves an exciting bit of pageantry capably acted by a cast which includes Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Dick Cromwell, and Kathleen Burke...
After leaving Munich and making a last night of it in Paris, H. R. H. turned up in St. James's Palace, told the 550 Mayors that, "In common with you all, I am concerned for boys and girls after they have left school, during the difficult time up to the age of 18. . . . There is no sadder sight in the world than aimless, dispirited youth...