Word: strenuous
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...seatings. In the time which the oarsmen of the two boats will require to acclimate themselves he will devote himself to details in the individual performances of his sweep-swingers, before any alterations in the arrangements of the boats are made. Tomorrow's practice will probably be no more strenuous than today's, the Crimson mentor preferring to increase the difficulty of the workouts gradually...
...last spike was driven, Sir Herbert went to South America and built the Trans-Andean railroad. After this interlude he returned to Montreal, battled for light and gas companies, in 1908 became president of the Royal Bank of Canada, the Dominion's first billion-dollar bank. Equally strenuous is James Henry Gundy, 50, so closely associated with Sir Herbert that they are known as the Holt-Gundy interests...
Internationally-minded advertising men pondered the matter of how England would respond to the somewhat radical Kensitas campaign and how large would be the future shadow representing Kensitas sale's figure. They recalled that Mr. Hill had made a strenuous attempt to sell, in his unique manner, Wix & Son's Wix cigaret, that this attempt had been a failure. The blame, however, was placed on the product rather than the advertising: England is used to a tightly rolled cigaret and Wix was of the loose-rolled U. S. variety. Taking no chances, he picked for his second attempt...
...Phillips has the vigorous backing of the A. A. P. A. which has lately run its Pennsylvania membership up from 1,000 to 40,000. He is making a loud, strenuous campaign, has sent cars equipped with loudspeakers all over the State to broadcast his Wet appeal...
...standard criterion, but it does not follow that it must be so arranged as to abnegate the background for the mere consideration of preliminary requirements. If these examinations are to mean anything, they must require a thorough foundation; and a passing mark must be an indication not of a strenuous, last minute effort, but an expression of a well-grounded, fundamental education...