Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Catching the noisemakers has posed a very difficult tactical problem, one gendarme explained last night. He guesses that the students probably are turning out their lights and throwing the salutes from way back in the room...
Ward and precinct boundaries cross College grounds in a dozen different places, making an outline of where to vote today a difficult task, even with diagrams. Herewith a brief outline of where...
...poll of the world's literary critics, Nobel Prizewinner Thomas Mann would probably win the nomination as the greatest living novelist. He would not, however, win any prizes as the most read-or most readable. His ninth and latest novel, Dr. Faustus, is probably his most difficult. A November co-choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club,* Dr. Faustus is a challenge to the club's membership, who will find it a chewy mouthful after some of the literary pap they have been fed recently...
...speaker. In listening to Dewey, it is impossible to forget that he once considered a singing career rather than the law. His voice climbs up and down the baritone register with perfect confidence; he knows which way his voice should go on every phrase and he never stumbles over difficult word combinations. He has gotten over the tight, diction-teacher quality his voice had four years ago and he now speaks freely and easily...
Impossible as it may seem, Howle Houston gets better every week, and it was difficult to tell that guard Jerry Kanin" where the injured regulars ought ter and tackle Will Davis were "filling to have been...