Word: tortuous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when the time came to toe the mark, the Alumni found, alas, that they did not have in their number four men capable of swimming two tortuous laps, Accordingly, so that no alumnus would return to his wife or graduate school or employer too fatigued for his own good, the Alumni fielded a relay team of eight men, each of whom swam a Tollicking one-lap race. Several divers and a breast stroker seem to have found their way into the line-up. Ulen's boys won the event, nevertheless, and in record time. but of course no record...
When Jaakko Mikkola's harriers leave Dillon Field House at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon to tramp across the Allston flats to the start of the tortuous cross country course, they will have one of the year's toughest meets ahead of them...
...Liber Studiorum" can be seen, together with etchings and engravings by Goya and Delacroix. Blake's illustrations of passages from the Old Testament are reminiscent of the zealous poetry found in his "Prophetic Books." The engravings, especially one called "The Fire Of God Is Fallen From Heaven," contain tortuous, Signorelli-like figures which show the artist's fanatical insight when dealing with the Scriptures. Blake's line is firm and decisive, expressing his sincere and dynamic mysticism...
Theirs was something of a tour de force. But onlookers will find much more to admire in the course taken by Granville Hicks, who refused to follow them through their tortuous dialectical labyrinths. For he demonstrated his possession of something they did not have: intellectual integrity...
Among the more unusual professions selected are: psychiatry, restaurant managing, promotion, vocal aptitude testing, aviation, lithography, yacht building, exporting, neuro-surgery, and planning. One man has elected to follow the tortuous path of chiropody...