Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much of the Government will test the wits and ingenuity of all of us. Habits are not easily broken, and we have gotten into the habit of expecting everything of the Federal Government. The longer we put off correcting this, the more dangerous it will get and the more difficult to meet...
While the difficult search for bodies began, old Ed Hamilton requested that they be buried forever by dynamiting the towering cliff above the wreck, memorial ized by a skyline marker...
...refreshing a frame building can be in this brick and stone University. But nevertheless, for Harvard to be forced to open a tiny unit like the Riverside hall, which will indeed barely scrape the surface of a really important habitation problem, is for the University to admit just how difficult that problem has become. Rearrangement of suites here and there has made available in all accomodations for about fifteen more men in the Houses--a few squirm through the bars while several hundred fret unhappily between Little and Claverly...
...politician but as a career colonial administrator did Theodore Steeg make his reputation. After serving as Minister of the Interior, to whom all French police are responsible, from 1912 through the War until 1920, he served as Governor-General of Algeria for four years, then was given the difficult task of succeeding France's late great colonial administrator, bristle-topped Marshal Louis Hubert Lyautey, as Resident General of Morocco. He did well enough in the four years he held the post to win him the task he was faced with last week, the most serious crisis French Morocco...
England has its Royal Family, the U. S. its Constitution. Both have been much amended, even temporarily abrogated (though in the U. S. only partly). Which is the more sacred it would be difficult to say, but it would be harder to imagine England without its Royal Family than the U. S. without its Constitution. Last week, as in every week since President Roosevelt announced his intention of "revivifying" the Supreme Court, the Constitution was front-page news. In Washington and Philadelphia publicity-wise politicians were making capital of the grand old document's 150th anniversary. And last week...