Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...argument that by this new system outsiders can more easily be excluded may be logical enough, but certainly in this case, the lure is not worth the game. The question of financial advantage, however, is much more difficult to oppose; for the new feature, though of itself unpopular, adds new value to, and should increase the sales of, the participation books. But here again the same answer should, in the end, apply. It is all very well to encourage men to take up athletics; but unless the rate policy is based rather upon the budget of the individual student than...
King Albert of the Belgians, experienced mountaineer, scaled the sheer pinnacle of Crozzon di Brenta, 10,247 ft. high, one of the most difficult climbs in the Lombard Alps. It took him ten hours...
...years there "Copey" would let no electricity be installed. Nor would he permit the ceiling to be repainted; candle and lamp smoke had given it such a fine patina. In later years "Copey" found it difficult to get the right sort of lamp chimneys, but he never gave in, and it was always by lamplight that he said, punctually at 11 p. m.: "Good night, good night, please come again...
Spain's republican government last week faced one of the most difficult decisions of its career. It had to decide what to do with General Jose Sanjurjo, the brave, paunchy Monarchist who, fortnight prior, had seized Seville in an attempt to put Prince Juan Carlos, third son of ex-King Alfonso, on the throne (TIME, Aug. 22). On trial before the Supreme Court in Madrid, General Sanjurjo lived up to his reputation for indifference in the face of danger. He listened quietly while old Francisco Bergamin, Spain's Clarence Darrow, argued that his coup had not been...
Because the iris is so fragile a fabric of vessels, nerves and muscles, it is difficult to hold the sutures with which an eye surgeon might attempt to mend a tear. Ordinarily the surgeon contents himself with cutting off the loosened bits of iris and guarding the eye against infection. This leaves the pupil a jagged hole, which is more fascinating than ugly...