Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knowledge. Such a course would be a history of science and of the development of scientific thought. For the non-scientific student this course would go much farther toward his understanding of the scientific attitude than the former type. Granted, a comprehension of this view is an exceedingly difficult task, one which has been accomplished by few, but to achieve at least come insight into man's mind as it has progressed through the centuries in its effort to understand the complexities of the life with which he was faced, is possible through this method...
...first ascent by a zoologist to the summit of Mount La Hotte, the least known and most difficult mountain peak in Haiti, has been accomplished by Philip J. Darlington, Assistant Curator of Insects in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, it was announced yesterday...
...know I am trustee of the estate left you by your father. It is very difficult to invest money safely in these times. I should be much obliged if you would answer the following questions so that I can administer the estate to your best advantage as beneficiary: Do you intend further to devalue the dollar? Do you intend to continue Government spending to the point where serious inflation will follow? What do you intend to do about silver...
With his resignation Gatti made public the correspondence between himself and Board Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath. Mr. Cravath's letters were suitably regretful: "I find it difficult to adjust myself to the thought of the Metropolitan without you in charge. . . ." Sphinxian Gatti was characteristically formal: "This decision is taken in consideration of my rather mature age [65], and of the continued and exhausting hardships of a long directorial career...
...would be difficult to assemble a more impressive aggregation of wealth than is represented by the men on Pullman's board: J. P. Morgan and his partner George Whitney; Richard K. Mellon and two Mellon lieutenants; George F. Baker and a vice president of his First National Bank; General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr.; Harold S. Vanderbilt, Montgomery Ward's Sewell Lee Avery. President of Pullman is David Anderson Crawford, a husky, popular gentleman of 55 who works hard and plays money-golf in the low 80's. During the winter at Chicago's University Club he plays racquets with...