Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Meanwhile, the Japanese are finding it extremely difficult to penetrate our territory between the railways because we have destroyed all the motor roads and our guerrillas are on guard within ten miles of every railway station. Both armies are now searching for new tactics...
...Exchange of full policing duties so that SEC will not have to patrol Wall Street; 4) plans for increasing the volume of bond trading on the floor; 5) possible rearrangement of commissions. So long as the market continues to climb, these or any other reforms should not be difficult. If the market crashes, Martin expects to be the goat...
...Ickes accused Mr. Tobin, "well wired for sound," of a grandstand "economy" play. Hotly, Mr. Tobin retorted that not he, but his predecessor, had asked for the new hall. From PWA he had accepted three Boston school additions vitally needed. "The President," said Mayor Tobin, "has a task difficult enough, and should not be burdened with a Cabinet officer who uses his tongue rather than his head...
Speaking for His Britannic Majesty's Government during a closing session of the House of Lords last week, the Earl of Plymouth, Parliamentary Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, gloomed: "Unless collaboration [by Germany] is forthcoming, this problem-already a difficult one-may possibly be rendered quite insoluble." Jewish supporters were quick to retort that even penniless Jews would prove a benefit to any nation...
...expatriate writers left in Europe is Kay Boyle, 35, Minnesota-born. Her short stories and novels still suffer from the elliptical writing that flourished in post-War Paris. They are difficult reading not because her prose is obscure, but because her characters are puzzling neurotics and she does not seem to know...