Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...between I.L.G.W.U. and C.I.O. have been becoming increasingly unfriendly. What many labor leaders resent is the disruption of the hundreds of local labor councils in which A. F. of L. and C.I.O. unionists can work together effectively, but which a complete breach between the two national organizations makes increasingly difficult. Last week former C.I.O. enthusiast Dubinsky stayed away from the C.I.O. meeting, sent instead Julius Hochman, poet, dilettante and hard-boiled manager of the New York Dressmakers' Joint Board...
...years before, Reza Shah Pahlavi ordered jail sentences for turban-wearers, forbade veils for Iranian women. Robed, turbaned mullahs were obliged to carry licenses. The Iranian habit of contracting temporary marriages, sanctioned by the Shiah sect of Mohammedanism, was so curtailed by the Shah that polygamy became difficult. The number of wives decreased, the number of prostitutes increased among Iran's heavy female population...
...Russians have been helping the Chinese government by supplying them with aviation materials. The position of Germany is very difficult to judge, yet there are many German military advisers in China and there are signs of German supplies in the country...
Replied Mr. Hopkins: "It is difficult, Senator, to look forward into the future...
...stimulation and pleasure of a journey in pure reason toward an understanding of matter and space. It is not an easy book to read. Though mathematical formulae are completely left out and the words are short and there are many illustrations and metaphors, the subject matter is inherently difficult. Einstein, of course, can be expected to understand his own theory more clearly than any of his popularizers, and much more clearly than they can he explain the ideas to the laymen. Nevertheless a good deal of concentration is required to follow each step in the thought, and a good understanding...