Word: difficultly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...professional leaders of the strike were faced with a difficult psychological problem. They sought to restrict the strike to its present confines, to increase union membership in mills now operating and thus collect dues to sustain the strik ers already out. But they found it hard to keep members at work ?members who glanced out of mill windows to see strikers idling in the sunshine, who realized that they were in effect supporting those strik ers by their labor. Many a new union member was tempted to quit the mills and join the "free grub" line in the sunshine...
Huge, the pictures represent The Birth of Music. There are bells, babes, crucifixes, saints, sages, violins, all suavely rendered in a flat, decorative style. The colors of these allegorical figures pale beside certain swaths of silver paint and vividly Hungarian ornamentation. It is difficult to see the figures, to comprehend the designs...
Last year I was forced to spend three entire afternoons a week on the "lab" work of just one of the chemistry courses I was taking. I was several times hindered in the work by being forced to stop at five o'clock in the middle of a difficult preparation, which a half hour would conclude, but which had to be postponed for complete repetition the next...
...matter of the expense of evening operation should not prove difficult. The stockroom might be closed at 7 o'clock without great inconvenience to evening workers. In many courses, a definite scheme of analysis in a laboratory manual is followed, and instructors would be unnecessary. Only an occasional man need be retained, to keep order and insure the safety of the building...
...legitimate theatres will not disappear, but they will become very sparse. With the best authors and actors being drawn into the moving picture field by the compensation available, and with the 'Listerine' advertising propaganda and lower admission prices that the sound pictures offer, the stage is put in a difficult position. But this will achieve one thing: it will create such competition among the legitimate plays, that a natural weeding out process will take place...