Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary Mellon: 1) Money is borrowed in advance of actual needs with a consequent loss of interest; 2) The Treasury must give the certificates, which it sells at par, as low an interest rate as possible, yet high enough to meet momentary conditions of the money market. This involves difficult guesswork...
...Village of Sin (Amkino). People have learned to expect in any modern Russian film a cast of well-chosen actors and actresses with difficult names, acting competently and intelligently without makeup on their faces, so that they do not look like actors and actresses but like men and women. People have learned to expect photography so quietly beautiful or so imaginative that the best effects of Hollywood technicians seem artificial or flamboyant by comparison. They have also learned to expect doses of tedious propaganda extolling communism and episodes in which unnecessary impressionism takes the place of ordered storytelling. This picture...
...important obstacle to another election in the near future is the matter of campaign funds. The Liberal party alone had spent $570,000; the expenses of Laborites and Conservatives were even higher. It would be difficult to raise any more such sums from even the most loyal party members for some time to come...
Obviously the Association of Harvard Chemists is fully alive to the fact that it has a double responsibility and the present gift is a material witness of this consciousness. Money in any form always has a ready welcome, and it is difficult to imagine a better stipulated use than that of buying books. The Chemical library has found adequate and very handsome quarters in the Mallinckrodt Laboratory, which-bring with them the demand that proper books be forthcoming to fill the shelves. It is very fitting that one of the earliest steps taken to fill this need has been made...
...Sargent is to be congratulated for solving so happily an extremely difficult problem. The khaki costume of the modern soldier lends itself to an orderly and interesting arrangement, and the necessity of filling two panels of rather difficult shapes with symbolic compositions, when no definite subjects were suggested to the artists, required the highest order of imaginative creation. Though individuals may criticize details of the composition and symbolism, none can deny that the artist has been extremely successful in his main purpose, which was to produce a great decorative composition aptly conceived and executed from the point of view...