Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many years after the marriage of the Edisons that some officious crackpot attempted to gild the lily by changing the perfectly simple Morse code into the more difficult "International" code...
This place is a swirl of rumors, propaganda and outright lies from which it is most difficult to extract the grain of truth. All except eyewitness reports by competent and independent correspondents should be treated with the greatest reserve. Any objective account from any side seems out of the question. There are three main sources of information...
Such should not be too difficult, for thus far the physical educators have succumbed to all: Williams beat them, 16 to 10; M.I.T. beat them, 8 to 4; New Hampshire edged them by one marker. Bob Maddox's teat swamped M.I.T. and New Hampshire and lost a close one to Williams, but he is not overconfident...
...slapdash, casual rule of the old East India Company "nabobs" was being tightened into the more efficient but far more inflexible system of imperial government. India was dividing into two worlds-that of the alien ruler and that of the native ruled; and day by day it grew more difficult for men like Henry to "belong to both...
...central characters of this meandering story about an adolescent love affair, mercurial Denis and marshmallow-sweet Lise, are difficult to take seriously as human beings. But Lemelin writes with vigor and energy, he is rooted in the life of the people about whom he writes and knows exactly what he is talking about; and, most important of all, he is steadfastly honest. Roger Lemelin may yet write novels that will make not only French Canada but the entire western world acknowledge him as an important writer...