Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From the description of conditions in Russia and of Stalin given by New Bolshevik Butenko, it is not difficult to understand why he figured it was best for him to skip. Excerpts: "I personally attended many of those treason trials in Russia. . . . I know better than anyone else the horrible tortures with which the Bolsheviks have taken the lives of many worthy and innocent persons. . . . The Bolsheviks promised the people of Russia full and complete liberty and autonomy. They even proclaimed the 'free right of the different regional nationalities to leave at their will the Soviet Federation.' Every...
Displaying a dynamic knowledge of baccarat and the higher nuances of poker, the Crimson motor yachtsmen whiled their way to victory over the Mystic launches on the difficult mile course of the Charles yesterday...
From their star-counts, involving an extremely difficult enumeration of a mass of tiny specks on a photographic place, the Harvard astronomers estimate that there are about 10,000 objects in the cluster between the brightest stars, about 18th magnitude, and the dimmest that have yet been counted, about 19.5 magnitude. How many stars there are fainter than this has not yet been estimated...
...awarding the prizes, the judges commented on the high calibre of the speakers, stating that the quality of the orations made the selection of the winners a particularly difficult task this year...
...eight songs go over well. The acting of the four pairs of lovers is uniformly good, but special praise is due the chorus. The muscular chorines, colorfully and often exotically gowned, have mastered their difficult routine and present it with striking precision...