Word: strenuousness
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Parkman was a puritan with a romantic streak, a social snob, a mentally and physically sick man who exalted the strenuous life and cracked under it. The Journals, which cover trips to New England, Canada, Florida, the Northwest and Europe, are as remarkable for what Parkman missed as they are for the precocious talent with which he described what interested him. He was only 17 when he made his first entries, but he had already decided to become an historian. At 23 he made his tour of the Oregon Trail, wrote his most famous (but far from his best) book...
...strenuous campaign to help passage of the Rogers Bill for increased monthly payments to student veterans, members of AVC will station themselves in College dining halls today to accept student "pressure" telegrams...
...Strenuous Life. In Reading, Pa., 46-year-old Joseph Yeman did splendidly in a dart game, jumped with joy, hit the ceiling, was taken to the hospital with a torn scalp...
After some strenuous haggling, M. Schuman announced a cabinet composed of Socialists, Popular Republicans and Radicals (centrists), plus one moderate Independent Republican. Foreign Minister Georges Bidault was kept at his post; the important Ministries of Interior (police) and of Social Affairs (labor) went to Socialists Jules Modi and Daniel Mayer...
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, who might be anticipating a year of particularly strenuous activity, was at Washington's Walter Reed General Hospital for a "routine physical examination...