Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wales suite on the Berengaria the price has been cut from $2,430 to $1,267.50. Average minimum rates, new and old: New* Old First Class $200 $250 Cabin 132 165 Second Class 120 152 Tourist 108 132 Third Class 71.50 79.50 The Conference was faced with a difficult problem. If it refused to approve the cuts, member companies might give 30 days notice and withdraw. Said North German Lloyd's John Schroeder: "I am an optimist." Said French Lines' Felix Lachesnez-Heude: "We are prepared to make this sacrifice ... in the hope that it will develop much...
...late Charitarian Nathan Straus, assumed leadership for the first time in fund-raising activities of any sort, as chairman of the Greater New York section of the American Palestine campaign. Presiding at the meeting at which Nahum Sokolow also spoke, he said: "I like a difficult job . . . I accept the responsibility of leadership at this hour, not merely by right of name or kinship with any man. but by right of my conviction of the supreme importance of the success of Palestine. . . . The Passover week is near at hand. . . . Millions of Jews all over the world will say Leshona Habo...
Happy Landing has to do with a young man, not unlike Charles Augustus Lindbergh, who sets out on a transpacific flight. Just to make it more difficult, the playwrights have the journey begin at Old Orchard, Me. That such a feat could be accomplished without refueling is explained by having the heroine (Margaret Sullavan). mention "the new carburetor" with which the ship is equipped. When the youth gets back home he is, of course, a national hero. He lunches with the President, is made a colonel in the reserve flying corps and runs into a rich and comely lion-hunter...
...clear however, that the immediate task of the Republicans will not be so difficult as that of the Democrats. While Hoover is the obvious G.O.P. leader, the question of leadership of the Democrats is undecided and very complicated. Unless they can attain some degree of solidarity, it is probable that the opportunity which the depression offers them will be lost...
This selection concludes a successful year during which three plays were given. Before Cambridge audiences the players have put on George Bernard Shaw's difficult "Great Catherine," Ibsen's seldom-given "When We Dead Awaken," and the well-received "Uncle Vanya," by Chekov, which the Guild Theatre revived in New York last year...