Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beethoven write very few sonatas for the piano and cello, probably because it is so difficult to coordinate the widely varying sounds of these instruments. But the sonatas nevertheless did succeed in mastering the difficulties of composition imposed by the two instruments...
...main reason for the savings is that books are classified by size instead of subject matter, which allows twice as many books to be crowded into a certain space. This makes it rather difficult to find books on a certain subject; the seeker must know the position of each separate volume...
...Hygiene Department has now decided it would like to know the answer to this question too, and has set out to determine all the detailed expenses that will occur this year. If the Department can be successful in this difficult and complicated task, it either will be able to answer the numerous complaints or will find that the students are right. Either way, it is encouraging to see that the Department is now interested in examining itself...
Some barber shops are apparently destined to be a cut or two above the average tonsorial parlor. It is difficult to compare two places of trade when the primary function of both is to trim one's hair. Maybe it is the clientele one place caters to, its general appearance, or its atmosphere, which enables it to build up a distinctive reputation. But a most unimposing barber shop which keeps in business, and very much so, for 50 years, must have some unique attraction...
...more difficult process for the birds comes up when the apparatus is set so that a delay between two pecks is necessary for a meal pay-off. He eventually gets wise to this when he discovers that turning around between the first and second peck, or walking across the eage and back, buys him a free meal...