Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trouble getting to sleep, five-suit or super-bridge, got its real impetus at the British Industries Fair last week, when the King & Queen bought two decks while the Duke of Kent looked on. Remarked the Duke, setting the test for future skeptics: "Bridge is already sufficiently difficult, without adding further complications...
...events, the suggestion that students take too many courses just for credit is one which would be difficult to substantiate and even more difficult to correct if proven true. At Harvard, as in most universities, required courses have been cut to a minimum, and the only ones now exacted are those held essential to a student's understanding of his field. "Snap courses," which indolent students take to fulfill requirements, are also becoming extinct, so much so that Comparative Literature 35 has long been renowned as the exception proving the rule...
...Onions for the composition of TIME as it marches on. . . I find it difficult to get the kernel of each story without carefully reading every word from start to finish. As I haven't the time for such laborious reading, weeks and months slip by without my getting past the first three or four pages of each issue. . . . The foregoing criticism applies only to the longer yarns-I find the shorter squibs quite unobjectionable...
...Trotsky from his Mexican refuge. "I don't have direct data that the death of L. Sedov is the handiwork of the GPU [Soviet secret police]. . . . At the disposal of the GPU there are very exceptional scientists and technical means, which makes the problem of medical examination very difficult...
...floe, meanwhile, in the gloom of Arctic winter, Leader Ivan Papanin glimpsed the searchlight beam from an icebreaker 40 miles away. That was the Taimyr, laboring toward them through the pack ice. At 20 miles, the going was so difficult that the Taimyr's commander thought of trying to blast a channel through the pack, but this plan was discarded as impractical. The men on the "station" marked out with flags a safe landing place on the ice near their floe, and the first contact was made by airplane...