Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third, of the nation who are ill-fed, ill-clothed and ill-housed." To merit this praise, how can the Undergraduate Faculty after half a year of existence show that preconditioning is the first step towards a fundamental cure? This question would be difficult to answer five years from now and impossible today. The long-range results of education cannot be measured in statistical units...
...resignation, easy-going Premier Prince Konoye has thus smartly passed on to the political leader of the group responsible for pushing Japan into her continental adventure, the responsibility for pulling her through. Also up to the new Premier is the difficult task of finding some formula for cooperation between the army and private capital, in the search for both victory and profits in China...
...keyboard is not so simple as pounding a typewriter, Bell Telephone picked 24 of the cleverest telephone operators from 300 candidates, gave them about twelve months' intensive training as Voder operators. Like concert pianists, they have to keep in trim by practicing several hours a day. The most difficult speech component they must coax out of Voder, and the one that sounds least natural, is the letter l. When someone at last week's demonstration asked for the words "Bell Telephone," they came out something like "Behrw Tehwephone...
...rise in Washington since Franklin Roosevelt's "quarantine" speech in 1937. Publishers, editors, correspondents produce more & more newspaper stories about it, abetted by Roosevelt advisers like Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson and Bernard Baruch. As in the years leading up to 1917, it is becoming difficult to tell where legitimate news stops and jingoism begins...
...transmitted by lice and fleas (hence delousing stations in the World War). The disease is due to a cosmopolitan virus called Rickettsia prowazeki,* which dwells in the intestines of the filthy little insects. Vaccines made from dead typhus viruses provide immunity from the disease, but such vaccines are difficult to make, for Rickettsia prowazeki cannot be easily cultured in artificial mediums, thrives and multiplies best in its natural habitat. Chief European vaccine maker is Professor Rudolf Weigl of the University of Lemberg, Poland. Last week the Paris weekly Marianne described a visit to Professor Weigl's laboratory...