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Word: difficultly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Britain does not intend to abandon her duties; despite the unthankful character of her job. We will continue the difficult task of maintaining order and upholding the national Jewish home in Palestine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Vengeance Into Murder | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...into a bag with several ramifying reeds attached he could produce many notes at once. That and the "drone," a bell-ended pipe attached to the bag which sounds an uninterrupted bass note, are the main characteristics of the bagpipe. It has a limited range of notes, is very difficult to play. The bag is held under the piper's left arm, the blowpipe which feeds the bag is held in his mouth, his fingers play along the "chaunter," the melody pipe punctuated with lateral holes. The reeds point skyward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Banff Festival | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...vineyards have increased from 100.000 acres to 173,691 acres. It is Mr. Doran's duty, of course, to discover ways and means to prevent the diversion of legitimate grape juice into illegitimate wine. Last week he was ready to admit that legally it would be very difficult to stop. Politically it is a touchy problem, too. If the wet-voting city winemaker is prosecuted, for consistency's sake so must the Dry-voting country cider & wine men be prosecuted. The hair-splitting decision of the Court of Appeals last week, distinguishing between home-grown and market-bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Grape | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Vigorous Bishop Breynat oversees the North Pole diocese. He inspects his charge by airplane. Father Griffin plans to shorten the devious route from Texas to his parish by flying over as much of the northern territory as possible. When he arrives he will be confronted by difficult tasks. Hostile native sorcerers are slippery hummocks of the spirit. To surmount them his cross must be his alpenstock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Polar Priest | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Digestive Acids. Too much acid in the digestive tract causes an anemia resembling pernicious anemia but not so difficult to treat.?Battle Creek's W. N. Boldyreff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Physiological Congress | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

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