Word: difficult
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Massachusetts magistrates sent to Salem Village for preliminary examinations faced a difficult problem: what constituted evidence of witchcraft? The Bible mentioned it in the same breath with sodomy and idolatry, but neglected to define it. After due deliberation the magistrates declared that a devil's "teat" or "devil's mark" on the body of the accused was proof of guilt, that mischief following anger between neighbors was ground for suspicion, and, most important of all, that "the devil could not assume the shape of an innocent person." This last meant that hallucinations would be accepted not as evidence...
Republican Senator Bridges was having his troubles, too. He had made many a speech demanding economy and cast many a vote against labor in the Senate, but he was now finding it difficult to explain his own acceptance of John L. Lewis' hearty bounty while drawing $15,000 from the U.S. Government as Senator. At first Bridges tried to argue that most of his trustee's salary went to lawyers, accountants, and other expenses of the job. But last week a report made public by the Senate Banking and Currency Committee showed that Bridges had actually drawn...
This final cascade of testimony made it more difficult than ever to imagine just what Harry Vaughan would have to say when he himself testified. But Washington politicos and thousands of plain citizens could hardly wait to find...
...seeds could be grown, he said, "we expect to have cortisone available in much larger supply from other sources." In the Merck laboratories, the Strophanthus product, sarmentogenin (first isolated in 1915), had already been carefully considered. The synthesis of cortisone from sarmentogenin, a spokesman said, would be "an extremely difficult matter." Its chemical structure is similar to the 17th intermediary product in the current process, he admitted, but that similarity by no means assures that the end-product after further processing will be identical. So far no sarmentogenin, the product of the African plant, has ever been fully processed into...
Detachment Is Difficult. "Ill-informed criticism" of Western genetics by party-liners, Haldane says, has made scientific detachment in this case "much more difficult"; he wryly adds that if Western geneticists actually "held the views attributed to them, they would doubtless deserve severe criticism." But he pleads also for open-mindedness on the part of the West: "It is of the utmost importance that biologists in this country should be able to appreciate both the positive and the negative elements in the views put forward by Lysenko." As a scientist, he begs both sides to assume that...