Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than a scholastic importance; the military value of the waterway itself, concentrated and infinitely easier to defend than any Atlantic port, is negligible. The defeat of the St. Lawrence project on sectional grounds would be politically intelligible; Its defeat on grounds such as this, besides creating a difficult international situation, would be political bathos...
...recommended a charter commission composed of Alfred E. Smith, onetime Governor Nathan L. Miller, Nicholas Murray Butler, and Elder Statesman Elihu Root. To the Governor's proposals Mayor LaGuardia had a ready reply, which he delivered two days later with good humor but with equal vehemence: "It is difficult to find a distinction between the conditions of [the bankers'] agreement and any equity receivership. ... It imposes upon the city an additional . . . $57,000,000 amortization . . . and an interest rate which may be as high as 6%-an unreasonable price in the present money market...
Gallant Lady (20th Century) registers once more Hollywood's conviction that Ann Harding finds it difficult to reconcile her love life with a career. Since she divorced Harry Bannister two years ago because he was "becoming a background for my activities and looked upon as 'Ann Harding's husband,' " her producers have persistently set her to exploring marital problems of the day. Gallant Lady, a courteous description of a self-consciously noble character, catches up themes familiar to her recent pictures. Instead of the lovelorn plastic surgeon in The Right to Romance, blonde Actress Harding this...
...with some hesitancy that this column trudges along the well worn path the attainment of success at Harvard gives impetus for a new effort. At Cambridge obstacles much more difficult than those confronted by Yale University authorities were surmounted, and malt brews for the first time in 106 years lave the parched throats of Harvard diners in hall...
...position of director of publicity of any university, to say nothing of a very conservative university such as Harvard, is bound to be a difficult one. For the academic temperament and the journalistic temperament are not such as to harmonize naturally without the interposition of a great deal of tact on the part of some one. The average professor or university bureaucrat resents any interference by the press in what he regards as his private business. The press, on the other hand, resents a policy of secretiveness and an attempt to conceal information which any semi-public institution like...