Word: strenuousness
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...rain-soaked practice field yesterday afternoon, Coach Casey put the Varsity football squad through one of the most strenuous two-hour workouts since the Dartmouth game. In spite of the fact that the Crimson is still hampered by a long list of injured players, the teams seemed to have some of the speed and power that distinguished the Harvard scoring machine last year. In the 30-minute offensive scrimmage with the Jayvees on Harvard plays, both the A and B teams appeared to function with more snap and eagerness than in any game spectators have witnessed on Soldiers Field this...
Before the War, William A. Wilson was a chemist. After the War he was an invalid, unfit for strenuous work. In Springfield, Mo. he tried raising pigeons and guinea pigs, failed to make a living. Then he met H. B. Sutter, a fruit grower, who suggested raising white mice for scientific experiments. Two years ago they bought 20 mice, paired them. Every three to six weeks a white mouse produces a litter of eight to twelve white mouselets, who within three months are themselves producing litters of eight to twelve white mouselets. Last week the Wilson-Sutter mousery consisted...
...loudly demanded that Japan's newly recognized Manchukuo Government, headed by Puppet Henry Pu Yi (see below) should increase protection for foreigners, especially in Harbin. His demands were the more insistent because he had just been held up by bandits on the Harbin golf course. Japanese officers promised strenuous efforts to provide protection. The trainwrecks and hold-ups were just the sort of incident they needed to show the necessity for Japanese troops in Manchukuo...
...June 1932 Citizen Davila succeeded in ousting President Montero with the aid of a part-Irish friend, Col. Marmaduke Grove (pronounced Gro-vay) of the air force. On becoming President. Don Carlos Davila made strenuous attempts to win the favor of the common people of Chile. He announced a program of "progressive" Socialism, one of the chief points of which was nationalization of the Guggenheim-controlled "Cosach" nitrate trust which, as Ambassador, he had helped...
...Clark, militant Wet, was a genuine A. E. F. colonel. He helped found the American Legion in Paris. He practices law in St. Louis. In the primary he beat Charles M. Howell, passive Wet, who lay in a Kansas City hospital with double pneumonia as the result of too strenuous campaigning. His victory was a thumping defeat for Tom Pendergast, Democratic boss of Kansas City, whose machine, a miniature of Tammany Hall, had backed the Howell candidacy. "Boss" Pendergast used to be a wholesale liquor dealer; now he runs a ready-mixed concrete company. Once his $100,000 home...