Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...list of Franklin Roosevelt's noteworthy qualifications for his difficult job, one that should not be overlooked is his amazing capacity for sustaining the antics which Washington's otherwise highly judicious newspapermen consider to be comic. Rated according to ordinary standards, many a quarter-hour of the semiannual Gridiron Club shows displays a lack of grace, pertinence and dexterity sufficient to horrify the least critical beholder. Gridiron Club high jinks are by no means the only such doings by which the President's endurance is regularly tested. Last week, his principal social relaxation after five working days...
...annual games of the Knights of Columbus in Manhattan. Without close competition-Gene Venzke crossed the line 30 yards behind him-he breezed through a mile in 4 min. 7.4 sec., breaking his own (recognized) indoor record by one second. Seventy minutes later he attempted something more difficult. He entered the 600-yard race, less than half his usual distance. The others made a sprinting start. He elected to start standing up, and was promptly left behind. Then his legs began to pump and he pulled up on the leaders. With a terrific sprint he crossed the line...
...outlook on war. For the most part they are men without deep roots, family or financial. They are young men, in good health, and the prospect of an unadventurous, indoors, office life is unappetizing. And they are at that juncture in life where their most important and difficult decision must be made, namely what career to pursue. Anything to defer the necessity of making this decision is not wholly unwelcome. All this was true...
...gentlemen were a great deal less anxious to see the recent exam period come to a close than most students. In a rash moment they had sworn mighty oaths to stop smoking on the day of their last exams--a promise which both of them, being inveterate smokers, found difficult to keep. But, being men of determination, they were observing the unwelcome vows under which they labored when they met for dinner last night...
...school, four fresh young lassies were taken aboard. One got in front and three got in back-yes, with the Vagabond. It was delightfully crowded back there, and he found it difficult to keep up any real interest in driving instruction. But soon Mr. Yordan brought the car to a stop within the practice area on Commonwealth Avenue and suggested that Bernice, with whom the Vagabond was just becoming acquainted, take the helm--or one of them. There was a major reshuffling as Bernice disengaged herself from the heap of girlhood, hooked her heel in the Vagabond's cuff...