Word: strenuousness
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...that last afternoon he had chosen to sing in Franco Leoni's L'Oracolo, a one-act opera, second rate to be sure, but one which only he had sung at the Metropolitan, one which exhibited his talent for acting and made no strenuous demands on his voice...
...some cases enabled 98%-blind patients to see well enough to work. Zeiss telescopic spectacles, not new, have been shown helpful in about 3% of clinical cases. Dr. Feinbloom's development is new, still of debated importance. The Journal of the American Medical Association last fortnight advised "strenuous protests" against Dr. Feinbloom's "socalled improvement." The American Foundation for the Blind and the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness followed suit. The American Academy of Optometry stood stoutly behind the Feinbloom claim of increased helpfulness to the 98%-or-less blind...
...current revenue, a catastrophic spread. Like all booms the current, superficial Japanese prosperity is basically unsound. With Manchuria still full of Chinese bandit-soldiers who are still full of fight, the Empire stands committed to further stupendous military expenditures, consequent further inflation of the yen and the most strenuous testing in 1933 of Japan's whole fabric, economic, fiscal, political...
...various ways these basic French convictions: 1) that France, against whom Germany launched her major onslaught in 1914-18, is justly entitled to collect from beaten Germany at least as much as France pays to her Allies; 2) that President Hoover, by imposing his one-year Moratorium against strenuous French objections, destroyed what remained of the possibility of collecting Reparations and destroyed it in the interest of U. S. owners of German securities whose investments would otherwise have been wiped out but are now merely "frozen"; 3) that France, though perfectly able to make the Dec. 15 payment (the first...
...discovered that in infection "band-form" cells sometimes increase as much as 25%. But in muscular exertion the increase is all in the ordinary white cells. Leucocytes furnished a good yardstick of energy production and exhaustion. Comparing one form of athletics with another disclosed that football is the most strenuous of all, with the possible exception of the 25-mi. marathon. During two hours of football, the ball is actually in motion only eight minutes. In that time the player burns up energy at top speed. Researchers Wood and Edwards discovered that the average leucocyte increase is nearly...