Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Belgians asked other questions. Why was Albert doing any dangerous climbing at all? He was 58, farsighted, heavy and subject to attacks of blood congestion. And why the particular pinnacle he was climbing? The fact that it is small but difficult is probably the reason Albert climbed it. The fact that its crumbly face made it dangerous, is probably why he was killed...
...Mecklenburg deflates a good many of the supposed horrors and terrors of Russian life. Under Stalin religious persecution has cased. Free love is ancient history and divorce is becoming increasingly difficult:--at present the figures are not appreciably in advance of those in America. He notes the inefficiency of the Russian industrial plants--only two out of three automobiles will run out of the shop under their own power. But he thinks this inefficiency no worse than the unemployment of millions of men in the rest of the world...
...Party Politics" by Professor Arthur N. Holcombe '06. He demanded that the state guarantee the right to work. This problem is not insoluble, he said, as the possibilities of useful public works are "really inexhaustible," and it is not the public imagination" that makes the problem appear so difficult...
Philbrick turned out to be a difficult prisoner to manage. Although his captors had no wish to use force to keep him quiet in his Adams House prison, they had to bind him before they could get any photographs. However, in spite of these precautions, Philbrick succeeded in escaping shortly before six o'clock...
Attempting a very difficult task, Fitzgerald has acquitted himself admirably. The contrast of the building up of Nicole after a bad start and the disintegration of Dick whose early start had been phenomenal is skillfully balanced and interestingly developed. "Tender is the Night" is well written, full of action, and true to life