Word: strenuousness
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There will be no scrimmage or other strenuous work-outs, the training consisting mostly of passing, signal drills on the basic plays, kicking practice, and occasionally some basketball games to keep the men in trim. Football shoes will be the only equipment given...
Tiffany Thayer is audacious; he keeps telling you so, just in case you might forget it. But his strenuous manner is more a form of nervousness than a cloak for really big doings. Publisher Claude Kendall ballyhooed Author Thayer into a bestseller; now he has changed his publisher...
...this course an exercise in idiomatic composition is required once a week. And each week when I am landed back my corrected paper I am forced to concede the justice of about one-third the red ink spilled thereon--but with the other two-thirds I take strenuous issue. Even the class instructor's version often differs with the readers. "Just a difference of opinion between experts," or "Perhaps the reader interpreted the passage in another way--". Perfectly sound explanations, but just where dew that leave my grade? In order to write a perfect paper for next Thursday I must...
...Albie" Booth, 25, stands 5 ft. 6 in.; weighs 145 lb. For ten years he has played strenuous academic sports. At Yale for four years his labors began with mid-September football practice. As soon as the football seasons ended, and with only a few days respite, he went in for basketball. Baseball began when basketball ended. While baseball practice proceeded, spring football practice began. Meanwhile he was attending classes, studying and socializing. No one restrained him. and he developed what Sports Writer Robert Harron of the New York Evening Post called "versatility...
Fulcrum of the I. C. C.'s five-party plan, Wabash has had a strenuous career in its 94 years of operation. In 1877 it was reorganized after its original 12-mi. line from Meredosia to Morgan, Ill. had grown to 678 miles. Twelve years later it was again reorganized but escaped receivership. Twenty-six years of financial peace followed, ended abruptly in 1915. The company went into receivership, was sold under foreclosure for $18,000,000 cash and assumption of underlying mortgages...