Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enthusiastic over the spiritual quality of the picture, the Butterfly suddenly softened. "Yes, -yes," he drawled, tugging gently at the little tuft under his lip, "one does like to make one's mummy just as nice as possible." So simple, so calm is the "Mother" that it is difficult to realize with what angry cluckings it was hailed on its first exhibition. Only because Sir William Boxall, Whistler's friend, argued himself hoarse in its behalf did it get into the Royal Academy at all. Critic Tom Taylor of the Times (he also doubled for Punch) promptly criticized...
Twenty million tons of iron and steel rust out of use each year. Electrolytic iron resists corrosion, but is difficult to make. Chromium alloyed with iron makes "rustless iron." "Stainless" steel contains iron, carbon and chromium. But for a multitude of uses a coating over the iron or steel objects suffices. Paint serves well in many places, as does zinc (galvanizing), tin, copper, lead, concrete. Nickel does not tarnish readily, resists corrosion, has high lustre, is hard, and has long been used to plate iron & steel. In all those qualities chromium surpasses nickel. When Professor Fink and others showed...
...thirty-sixth honorary member of the New York Authors Club, had delivered himself at length to reporters. The Irish Academy of Letters, which he and George Bernard Shaw founded last summer, has had setbacks, he admitted. James Joyce refused to join because "living in France, he finds it difficult to realize how important the academy seems to men of Irish letters." Lord Dunsany refused "because he could not endure being only an associate member." Another Yeatsism: "I am not one who believes in waiting for inspiration. I start writing poetry at 11 every day. Poetry is quite a heavy...
...this little book are a reprint of three radio lectures delivered by Mr. Eliot in England. On the printed page they reveal the fundamental limitations of the type, although the specific flavor of the lecture is happily absent. The radio, even more than the public platform, is obviously a difficult medium for anything more than the conventional 'appreciative' discourse on poetry, and these essays can best be taken as an exceptionally graceful and discriminating specimen of that character. They bring little new matter to the contemporary 'rehabilitation' of Dryden's reputation, though they may possibly give wider currency to that...
...days of no difficult economic problem, the conservative party is generally apt to remain in control of the government because they can then unite in opposition to any change, but when serious economic problems arise, the average nation turns to liberal or progressive leadership, realizing that new policies have to be adopted to meet new ideas...