Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Turks, who threw away fez and veil at President Mustafa Kemal's command, set about achieving last week that much more difficult Western reform, a balanced budget...
...morale a world of good. Facing newsfolk just before M. Tardieu dashed back to Paris, dignified Scot MacDonald beamishly confessed, "We did overflow a bit at times. I might say the Danube was in such full flood that it overflowed its banks. In fact, it would be difficult to name any topic of world interest today which was not touched upon in the course of our various talks. There was a dinner last night at the French Embassy, where the conversation was free & easy ! Today I lunched with them all here in Downing Street, after which there was a sort...
...love to do portraits of smart women, beautiful women, babies when I must. Men are very difficult to please. I also do much still life like boats, autos, instruments, nuts, nudes; publicity photos when allowed to use my own ideas. It's all the same button-pushing process, bringing things to light...
...Philadelphians instantly recognized this so-called sprechstimme as the device which Composer Alban Berg, a Schoönberg pupil, used with the same wailing effect in Wozzeck (TIME, March 16, 1931). Piccolos had a prominent part in this last orchestration, done ten years after the first. The strings had difficult chromatics to flurry through. But it never got noisy or jarring, never lost sight of Tove's tender love theme. Over the radio Stokowski said that Gurreliede was unlike most modern music in that it was simple, direct, easy to grasp on a single hearing. If in Vienna Composer...
Despite the fact that this practice is wholly indefensible, it must be realized that Masters are in a difficult position. In order that the consultation period may be of value, House representatives must be willing to tell applicants their probable chances of admission. At the same time they should not give the impression of finally selecting them for membership or definitely assigning them particular rooms...