Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stuart Erwin's strongest recommendation and simultaneously his greatest obstacle to becoming a star is a quality difficult to define except by its effect upon an audience. There is something profoundly inconsequential about his appearance, something gravely and bitterly unimportant about his bearing which stamps his personality with an almost classic insignificance. When you have seen him once you can always forget him; it is this which has made him a memorable comedian...
...looms. Adding Martin to the list of exceptions, it can be said that no other members of the present squad give much promise of approaching the play of Wood, Cunningham, and McGregor. Unless unusual talent comes up from this year's Freshman sextet, this year's record may prove difficult to equal...
...affair with the Romano woman whom police have never been able to trace since her disappearance after the former's acquittal and prompt departure to Italy. With the long period of time that has elapsed since the commission of the crime, prosecution of the accused is accordingly more difficult...
Queried as to how murder victims were able to put up such strenuous resistance to their attackers on some occasions, Dr. Magrath revealed that it is difficult to kill a person instantly by a blow on the head unless administered with a weapon capable of actually damaging the brain. A carpenters hammer, he pointed out, could not be classed as a "dangerous weapon" although a stonecutter's maul is "a different matter...
...burden of the last year with Divisionals, Orals, a Thesis, and numerous hour examinations is a difficult one to carry successfully. The present change will enable a student to devote himself more attentively to the problems which are his chief concern, while restricting those academic obligations which are not essential. It is true that a course reduction will place a greater emphasis upon the Tutorial System, but this kind of instruction has been found to be increasingly satisfactory...