Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what could be done about achieving some kind of order out of the monumental chaos and dustiness of the paleobotanist's room. Very little had been accomplished when the cycad-lovers arrived, trailed by the President of the university and his fuming committee. It was a little difficult to appear dignified and interested and at the same time keep their morning coats and striped trousers out of the inch-thick dust while the Prince and Wieland continued their ardent and interminable conversation. His Royal Highness even demanded to see a particular specimen that had been filed...
...General Hugh Johnson-who may have suggested the new arrangement to RCA's David Sarnoff-$40,000 to mediate a single strike in the Camden manufacturing plant. Best guess why Ed McGrady did not abruptly quit last week was that he wanted to let the President start the difficult job of picking his successor, a man who, among other things, must be, as Ed McGrady was, acceptable to and trusted by C.I.O.'s John Lewis and A. F. of L.'s William Green...
Cambridge and Harvard are not difficult to navigate once one knows the way around. At the start, however, the University and its surroundings may seem rather hit or miss. For that reason the accompanying map and its explanation below can be of service in first finding where's what...
...TIME was not quite accurate in saying Pennsylvania Dutch is a mixture of German, Dutch & English. It is a potpourri of plattdeutsch, high German, English and contains many colloquialisms, the origins of which are difficult to trace. Pennsylvania Dutch dialects and word usages differ considerably even in the five principal Pennsylvania Dutch counties: York, Bucks, Lehigh, Berks and Carbon...
...Generalissimo Chiang. For five years Shanghai's mayor was suave General Wu Te-chen who became a national hero in the Japanese invasion of 1032 Last March Generalissimo Chiang decided that Mayor Wu might be getting to be too much of a hero, kicked him upstairs to the difficult post of Governor ot Kwangtung and gave this rich job to O. K. Yui, a toothy highly-Americanized graduate of St. John's University, Shanghai who had been Secretary General and busiest executive of Shanghai since...