Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congratulations upon a difficult job performed with a modicum of success. You have managed to introduce a cheap and flippant note even in your account of persons most sacred to Canadians: your story of the Royal Visit to Canada...
...from scratch in 1933, have an edge in modern guns, superior to hoary French models. The Germans use a new 105 mm. howitzer while the French rock along with antiquated Seventy-fives. Some professionals also contend that French rifles are out-of-date, "tall as the Eiffel Tower," hence difficult to conceal, whereas the Germans use a short carbine that snuggles neatly into shallow trenches and shell holes; that German anti-aircraft equipment is excellent, while the British, who need it more, are just beginning to approach bare minimum safety strength...
Most ominous was Pravda's comment: "Superfluous collective farmers" will be shipped to regions where farm labor is needed. Peasants, who know too well that this means the arid lower Volga, the Siberian Far East where the Soviet Union finds it difficult to tempt settlers by normal means, trembled in their greasy hip boots, wondered if this was the first shot in a new war against the peasants...
...criterion of age. Lina's early menstruation, said U. S. pediatricians, was probably caused by an ovarian tumor. Ovarian tumors are not rare, sometimes cause menstruation in children a year old, often produce glandular changes which stunt growth. Concluded A.M.A. spokesman Dr. Morris Fishbein: "It is difficult or impossible to determine the exact age of children born in primitive tribes. . . . It is likely that she was much older...
...spring, reach New Jersey about the Fourth of July. Blue Marlin are plentiful in the summer (from late June) at Bimini, B. W. I., famed fishing paradise of the Atlantic. There the world's record 636-pounder was boated in 1935. Broadbill, fishing for which is most difficult (because its soft mouth is hard to hook and harder to keep hooked), and most expensive (because many fruitless attempts make boat hire costly), migrate as far north as Cape Breton, N. S., where a 601-pounder, a North American record,* was caught three years...