Word: difficultly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harding Administration. "It would be difficult to find two years of peacetime history in all the record of our republic that were marked with more important and far-reaching accomplishments. From my position as President of the Senate, and in my attendance upon the sessions of the Cabinet, I thus came into possession of a very wide knowledge of the details of the Government...
...chief handicap is Mexico City's altitude, a mile above sea level, where the thin atmosphere makes it difficult for a plane to rise with enough gasoline for the distance. In 1927, Col. Lindbergh flew in the reverse direction, from Washington to Mexico City, arriving with light tanks...
...rediscount rate, that his influence has kept the Board from taking drastic measures. Neither personal nor political reasons are lacking to make such an attitude logical for Mr. Mellon. Not only is the Bull Market an evidence of Republican Prosperity, but rising rediscount rates would make more difficult the flotation of Treasury Loans. Whether or not the Reserve Board is, as Mr. Warburg says, "bewildered by political influence," it is certain that many a speculator considers that in Mr. Mellon he has a friend in the high places...
...thinks the other has played false. The villain has attended to that. For revenge the heroine attempts to win the fiance of the hero's daughter, who, of course, turns out to be the heroine's own daughter. And so on-far into the night. It is difficult to tell whether the players are in on the joke. They are as incredible as the plot but that may be just part of the game. Certainly no one was ever more villainous than Arthur Vinton, and without a black moustache, too. The only touch of reality is lent...
...their possessor, and often enable scholarship to perform work more congenially than is possible in a public institution. By placing their valuable possessions at the disposal of scholars and learned societies, many collectors have enriched literature. By their public spirit they have glorified public collections. It is not difficult to realize the value to scholars, and thence to literature, of the accessibility of books in such collections as the Widener at Harvard, the Huntington in California, and the Morgan in New York City. Incidentally, the Huntington Library owns the most precious collection of books ever accumulated by one individual...