Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...throw some light on a question that is bothering a number of people in this community. As a group we are pretty patriotic down here. Usually we subscribe about 100% to movements such as the NRA. Even now, when the movement is in its infancy it is very difficult to find a business not under the Blue Eagle-with one very notable exception. Surprising as it may seem, our own Uncle Sam is the only one who flatly refuses to put out the Blue Eagle. Since he is sponsor of the movement this seems doubly mysterious. He tells other employers...
...patronage. Carter Harrison, longtime Mayor, son of the 1893 World's Fair Mayor, was made a Collector of Internal Revenue over the Cermak-Kelly candidate for that job. Ed Kelly will probably be remembered principally as the World's Fair Mayor of 1933. In that difficult job he has handled himself with grace and dignity, made a good host to millions of visitors.*** When nudity on the Fair's midway became a public issue Mayor Kelly inspected the gay midnight shows...
...then to San Antonio's Commercial National. The thief at most received 40% of their face value. If they had been corporation bonds he would be lucky to get 20%. The front man takes a cut of at least 10% and the fence, whose job is the most difficult, might realize (for Governments) as high as 75% of the face value...
...Saturn is comparatively difficult to observe because it, least dense of the solar system's planets, has a vaporous, clouded surface, and because its rapid rotation (roughly once every ten hours) wheels surface phenomena quickly out of sight...
Pierre Hamp, proletarian (as opposed to propagandist) author, has had a queer and difficult apprenticeship in his profession. In Kitchen Prelude, the story of his youth, he tells what it was like to be a pastry-cook's helper in Paris, a chef's assistant behind such glittering faqades as Marguery's Restaurant and London's Savoy Hotel...