Word: strenuous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life of the stock player, though enjoyable, is strenuous; so strenuous, in fact, that if we didn't believe that we were contributing to what we consider the highest of arts, I doubt whether most of us would continue the grind. Our system of presenting a play for only a week, usually, and then giving another almost immediately, allows but four or five days to learn a completely new role sometimes as long as 30,000 words...
...club has recently received word that it was awarded third place in the annual Loening Intercollegiate Flying Club contest, having lost by a narrow margin to the clubs from William and Mary College and the University of Michigan. Strenuous efforts will be made during the year to regain the Loening trophy, which Harvard has frequently held in the past...
...midst of this strenuous activity Dr. Margaret Gladys Smith, assistant pathologist at Washington University School of Medicine, strolled into the laboratory of her superior, Dr. Howard Anderson McCordock, and casually picked up some slides of kidney tissue from dead encephalitis victims. Dr. Smith popped the slides under a microscope...
...police feared was another wave of assassinations staged by patriotic youths who think that Japan has not yet seized enough Chinese soil. Since the present Government is honestly trying to grab all it safely can, Tokyo police, who are sometimes patriotically lenient toward would-be assassins, made real and strenuous efforts...
Four years ago when Conductor Nikolai Sokoloff bought a farm in Weston, Conn., he thought he had found a perfect place for resting after strenuous winters with the Cleveland Orchestra. Next winter Sokoloff will not be conducting in Cleveland's imposing new Severance Hall (TIME, Feb. 16, 1931). Nor will his Connecticut farm be an undisturbed haven this summer. Italian laborers were jabbering all over the grounds one afternoon last week. Sokoloff shed his coat, pushed his hat on the back of his head and mounted a tractor. Guests who dropped in for cocktails were set to work...