Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best offense may be a good defense this afternoon, especially if a wet field slows down the leather luggers of both schools and makes aerial operations difficult...
Instruments for detection of submarines have been made much more accurate, he said, and the Scapa Flow attack probably happened because there were so many ships in the harbor that it was extremely difficult to detect one more. The most successful invention for finding submarines has been an "echo" arrangement, which determines distance and direction...
Bakers last letter, which was addressed to John F. Seiberling '41, expressed uncertainty as to the exact date of his mobilization. "It's astoundingly difficult to convince the French government that they need any more men," Baker remarked...
...hard to say that one instrument is more difficult than another, but the method of tone production in the brass is certainly extremely treacherous and touchy. The hornets or trumpeter is dependent on subtonic adjustments of his breath and lip muscles rather than on the finger and arm motions, which most other musicians employ. The difficulty of tone production is especially important when the player must enter after a long period of rest. In music of the pre-Romantic period--for example, Beethoven's First Symphony in the next Friday and Saturday symphony concerts--the player must continually pick...
...Crimson Freshmen finished up a dismal day by losing to Worecester Academy, 2 to 1. Horkey Herskovits, leading scorer for the Yardlings, made their lone score on a difficult shot in the third period...