Word: difficultly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jerry for Short. William A. Grew, author of the smut-cracking comedy My Girl Friday, was mistakenly encouraged by its profits to display this naïve anecdote of innocence in Westchester County. In it romance is made difficult for a youth of the aristocracy and a peasant virgin; difficult also for Fiske O'Hara, who plays the lead and tries to ingratiate his audience by chatting and singing to them in an entr'acte...
...born to the Steinmetzes of Breslau in April of 1865, alfresco play was difficult. Deformed son of a deformed father, gnomelike little Karl was smaller than most, also weak-legged, humpbacked, bigheaded, crablike. In kindergarten, learning became his play. From 7 to 17, shielded from religious influence, he developed into his Gymnasium's pride. Studying fundamentals of engineering at the University of Breslau, he kept his professors whole lecture hours arguing with...
...grouse coverts. Three-quarters of a mile away the beaters started moving toward them, a line of schoolboys and gillies waving flags, beating dishpans. Crouched in the bottom of each butt was a nimble-fingered loader, ready to hand each "gun" his second weapon. Began the fastest most difficult wing shooting in the world. Flying 50 miles an hour, like rocketing black bullets, grouse zoomed straight over the butts. Hundreds of birds fell, hundreds more escaped to fly again another...
...show the forged Illinois license and college diploma, ask for a license from that State, which would be issued perfunctorily. Soon they would return to Illinois, show the license from the neighboring State; demand a complementary one from Illinois. This method, while devious, enabled them to obtain legitimate licenses difficult to trace to their spurious source...
...first importance. ... It is far better to at least try to establish [parity] by agreement before we resign ourselves to establish it by rival construction programs. ... I fear you have been misinformed as to the actual problems that lie before us, for they are far more intricate and difficult than can be solved by the simple formula which you suggest...