Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picked out as the only key he could manage that of F sharp. As you know this key is in six sharps, one of which is not even a black note, and I am surprised that someone merely picking out melodies by ear would select such a difficult key to play...
...Vagabond has fled the halls of Harvard and betaken himself to a fairer place than even Cambridge town, which is not difficult if he remembers his Cambridge. Inasmuch as he plans to sojourn here for some weeks far from the madding crowd it will be best to describe this place for his readers. There are no Georgian Houses with gold leaf and emblazoned shields, there are no Georgian cafeterias, there are no Deans, and there is no scaffolding to hide the works...
...assassination of Premier Inukai of Japan, at a time when the Far Eastern danger seemed temporarily at least to have been side-tracked, has undoubtedly complicated the peace-problem of the world in general and of the United States in particular. In a sense it in difficult to feel much sympathy for the Premier, in spite of the courage he displayed. The Fascist spirit which led to his death was for him a Frankenstein monster, nourished only to have it escape from its control and turn against him. Put into office in order to press Japan's aggressions...
...government, under the semblance of a "national" council, cannot be determined now. If it does, the tense feelings which predominate in the diplomatic relations of this country and Japan will in all likelihood be increased. Another threat to our economic and political interests in the Pacific will be more difficult to meet by peaceful means than was the last...
...National Board of Strategy to plan and correlate industrial enterprises would cut sharply across the duties and prerogative of existing American Institutions. When one considers how strongly those who have those duties and prerogatives will cling to them, buttressed by the system of which they are part, it is difficult to share Mr. Thomas' conviction that the change could be made without violence, especially in a country which, as he himself says, has a long tradition of violence...