Word: strenuous
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...draftsman but the father-in-law of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, small-statured, mighty-minded Dwight Whitney Morrow. This was but just. For although the main U. S. legal prop of the conference maypole has been Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, much of the strenuous work of dancing round and round for eleven weeks, much of the weaving in and out of diplomatic ribbons to make the Naval Treaty, has been done by Mr. Morrow, always keen, wise and cheerful behind his twinkly pince...
Further bewailing the lot of the college president, Dean McConn said that all of his assistants are "his own creatures, his own appointees . . . his yes-men, as are likewise the professors." And Dean McConn deduced that the strenuous life of the college president accounts for the fact that "within the preceding nine months [November report] 55 colleges and universities made changes in their highest executive office. . . . Since there are only about 750 colleges in the country, these changes represent a turnover of 7.3% in nine months. Surely this is an alarming rate of academic mortality...
...board to consist of principal senior officers, much as the "Managing Directors" or "Council of Directors"' used by many foreign banks. Into this position will go Albert Henry Wiggin, genial, well-known Chairman of Chase. Banker Wiggin is really self-made, having no college education, no "affiliations." A strenuous hiker, he often made the famed passage of "from Midtown to Wall Street," with Charles Hamilton Sabin of Guaranty Trust and the late Henry P. Davison of J. P. Morgan & Co. Almost as prime as Chase is among banks is his collection of etchings. Although he has neither the promotional instincts...
...Warner First National combination with the Fox Loew combine, as the merged concerns, the government claimed, would control 65 per cent of the $2,000,000,000 invested in the business, which is the fourth largest in the country. But the big companies themselves realize the need for strenuous competition. Without it their productions would deteriorate, and a small independent band of good actors who produced a first rate film could sell it to the theatre chains...
...Solicitor General of the U. S., at 44 Governor of the Philippines; at 47 Theodore Roosevelt, Harvard '80, who loved "Will" Taft well enough to let him snooze in the strenuous Rooseveltian presence, took him into his cabinet as Secretary of War, groomed him for the Presidency...