Word: strenuous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second place, the new management reduced the salaries of the students working on the concessions and increased the working hours. Only when a strenuous protest was made, were salaries raised to a reasonable figure. Students were made to account for each cent taken in, with a dock in pay as the penalty. Under the old system a deduction from profits was the penalty...
...standing. We believe that in a striving to reach that goal, all possible time should be spent in pursuing regular studies without lowering the standard of physical health. The compulsory, exercise plan, in our ease, at least overlooks both these points. Not only are the three additional hours of strenuous activity lowering our health through physical exhaustion; they take at least three valuable hours each week which would ordinarily be spent in studying...
...Philadelphia office of strenuous, steel-eyed William Wallace Atterbury, 68-year-old president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, great & good friend of the late Ivy Lee (see p. 34), got wind of rumors that "The General" was critically ill. Since he had a gallstone removed last August, General Atterbury had kept away from his office. For a fortnight he had been cruising off Florida in his yacht Arminia. There the rumors were relayed to him last week. The Arminia put in at Miami, where her master received newshawks on deck, thumped his chest heartily and crowed: "I'm the livest...
Coach Cliff Gallagher will be able to put his strongest lineup on the field, and with a week's strenuous scrimmage behind them the Crimson yearlings will enter the game quite confident of coming out with their first victory of the season. Last week the Freshman tied a scrappy Exeter eleven 0-0 which had defeated the Yale freshmen 16-0 the week before, and in the contest showed great potentialities. In fact it is considered to have as fine prospects as last year's eleven which swamped Dartmouth and Yale in its principal games...
...Empire this was brave news, for Prince George, cheerful, popular and hand some, has all his life been rated physically below par. Organic indigestion drove him from the Royal Navy into the Foreign Office where he was made a third secretary. This proved too strenuous. Sympathetic Edward of Wales took him along on a tour of South America, did all the heavy speech-making himself. Prince George seemed to perk up and catch on. Senoritas praised his dancing, called him "more fascinating than the Prince of Wales." His digestion seemed to improve. He seemed to be able to drink...