Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Able public servants are few and seldom appreciated. We are deeply indebted to the Defense Secretary for his businesslike job in a difficult position...
...notice tacked up in Canton's Oikwan Hotel summed up China's week: "Please pay tip. Life is difficult...
Coach Stan Priddy and his squad see Boston University as their toughest competition. Yale is next on the difficult list. But Brown and Boston College probably won't worry them so much...
...case of Philosophy Professor Herbert Phillips, the question becomes a good deal more difficult. The only place where this question could have been solved was Professor Phillips' own class room. Here the committee found that "... his practice is to warn his students of his bias and to request that they evaluate his lecture in that light...
...Manhattan's New Friends of Music asked famed Mezzo-Soprano Jennie Tourel to give the new Marienleben its first performance. Jennie, as good as they come in skill and agility of voice, took a run over the score and gulped. Even after revision, the score was the most difficult Jennie had ever seen. But, she says, she couldn't shake off the beauty of Rilke's poems and the challenge of Hindemith's powerful music. With Pianist Erich Itor Kahn, she worked on it, finally, after months of study and some 40 rehearsals, mastered its immense...