Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...achievements must surpass even the airy promises of rival factions. The employers who propose this measure in the interests of "union democracy" are doing a disservice to the cause of good labor-management relations. And they will be creating a Frankenstein monster from which they will find escape both difficult and costly...
...Navy has had to write off 57 Bikini ships as still too difficult or too expensive to decontaminate. The carrier Independence is still afloat at San Francisco, but is so "hot" that it can be used only as a laboratory for decontamination training. Of the original 76 ships (including two barges) that rode at anchor in Bikini Lagoon, only two submarines, five transports and two LCIs are afloat and declared to be completely safe...
...Albert Museum: "After all, painters have always sought to make an object.Very often they have taken a subject too; but if only this mythical layman could be persuaded instead of looking at the subject to look at the object [the painting itself], he might then be able to appreciate . . . difficult pictures...
...extraordinary imaginative power, like Matisse, Picasso and Braque. Greatly as I admire them, I think their effect on their contemporaries and juniors has been catastrophic. To distort before you can represent is like trying to dance before you can walk." But, argued Mortimer, "modern painting is no more difficult to understand than modern poetry, modern music, or, for that matter, modern science...
...happens to the student's $15, the committee would have had to examine every invoice and voucher for a year of Hygiene Department operation, a task which even the U. S. Government auditors, who looked at the books when the University held war-time Army and Navy contracts, found difficult...