Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clipper sideswiped a launch while taking off from Trinidad's Port-of-Spain harbor, filled with water (TIME, April 20, 1936). Even that mishap was more like a collision between surface craft than the sort of accident that commonly befalls airplanes. The record of P.A.G., which flies the difficult South American overland routes, is less excellent but still good: 32 lives have been lost in nine years of operation covering 40,000,000 passenger miles...
...Browns out of last place in the American League. By last week, the Browns had drawn over 100,000 spectators to their home games, more than watched them all last year. Like many professional baseballers who, because they work half days and half years, find the problem of diversion difficult and pressing, Hornsby was fond of betting on horse races. Last week, sportswriters who knew that a special clause in Hornsby's $20,000-a-year contract bound him not to let his betting interfere with his baseball, soon guessed that a difference of opinion about what "interference" meant...
Month ago when he took the President's commission to find a Court compromise and push it through (TIME, June 14 et seq.) it had not looked difficult. Instead of six new justices at one fell swoop, he had chosen a plan for four new justices, one a year, and had had no difficulty in finding some 54 of the 96 Senators who seemed willing to vote for this modified plan. But during the week of debate, men on whom he had counted had been slipping away. The opposition had been arguing that if it was wrong to pack...
Bedseat Driving. Seated in his bed at Tokyo last week, the Premier of Japan, astute and cautious Prince Fumimaro Konoye, gave out that he was "suffering from insomnia." Actually he was conducting the difficult affairs of the Empire in a manner which afforded maximum protection from Japanese super-militarists, zealots of such stop-at-nothing kidney that they have murdered a total of three Premiers of Japan...
...altitudes between 12,000 and 19,000 feet. Chinchillas live gregariously in rocky burrows, eat leaves and nuts. The prime fur is so dense that fleas and lice cannot penetrate it. Each hair is tipped with black, slate blue about half its length, merging into a delicate pearl grey. Difficult to capture alive, chinchillas are shot by Indians with blow-guns using poisoned darts. The wound is only a pinprick, does not injure the pelt. Price of each pelt may be as low as $50 for a coarse, short-haired specimen, $500 for a particularly fine...