Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grim law of the French Republic, the guillotine must be set up in a public place to discourage wrongdoers. Modern French police do everything in their power to make it difficult for the morbid to see an execution. Last week strong police cordons blocked off the street 200 yards on either side of the Widow. Gaping butchers' boys peered over policemen's shoulders to see the tiny figure descend from a horse-drawn van. refuse the traditional cigar and glass of rum. There was a huddle round the base of the guillotine, then the knife crashed down...
Good Sport (Fox). Kept ladies, where the cinema is concerned, are the female equivalent of gangsters. An entire flock of them appears in this picture. They disport themselves in a mood of mean frivolity, snapping their shoulder straps and rude comments at each other, while making things difficult for the heroine who associates with them in order to learn about her husband's extra-marital amusements. She (Linda Watkins) sub-leases the apartment which her husband has provided for his mistress. While he and the mistress (Greta Nissen) are abroad, she falls in love with a sober-sided young...
...Grocer MacVeagh. "But I did not resolve to do so until a week ago. . . . We have gone through several panics and one great disaster, the Chicago fire. The present depression will end, but is the most in-correctable situation I have ever experienced. Never before has one been so difficult to control...
Construction statistics on the dam ran into dazzling figures, difficult problems. Over 1,500,000 cubic yards of rock were removed from the river and nearby quarries. Eight and one-half miles of railroad track were raised without stopping traffic. Four thousand men were employed at one time in the work. The dam is 92 feet high and with the power house extends more than a mile in length...
...team will defend its championship in the Intercollegiate Class League today when the annual tournament begins in New York City. The Crimson will have to defeat the best chess players from Dartmouth, Yale, and Princeton to keep the Challenge Trophy which it gained last year after a long and difficult struggle...