Word: strenuousness
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...Argentine makes its bow to the U. S people under the watchful eye of Waldo Frank. Editor Frank explains his selections, places them historically, with a confusing foreword and clearer prefatory notes. After his explanations are read and forgotten the stories may speak for themselves, which they do in strenuous voices. Their unifying characteristic is a certain incoherence, which, in addition to violently poetic phrasing, makes it often difficult to tell what is happening. But though their literary quality fluctuates, their dramatic intensity seldom falters...
Reasons given for this depletion of commissioned Navy personnel: disappointingly poor and unequal pay, a bad promotion system. After the strenuous four years of instruction at Annapolis, an ensign receives $1,500 a year, $699 allowances, or about the pay of a District of Columbia policeman. After seven years in the service, he may be promoted to lieutenant (junior grade) with a total salary of $2,899. These rates are based on the military pay law of 1908, as revised by War bonuses and the hastily passed law of 1922. In 1929 a pay board representing the Army, Navy, Marines...
Frederick Brant Rentschler, strenuous president of United Aircraft & Transport Corp., brother of National City Bank President Gordon Sohn Rentschler, became president of United's subsidiary Chance-Vought Corp., taking the place of the late designer-tycoon Chance Milton Vought...
...small Shanks process plants will be eliminated. With mass production working on the 400,000,000 metric ton nitrate reserve still left in Chile (enough to supply world consumption for many centuries), Chile nitrate producers last week were more hopeful than they have been in many a year of strenuous competition with synthetic producers...
After 16 months of strenuous detective work by some of Germany's greatest criminologists, one Peter Kuerten, 47, was arrested last week, charged with being the famed "Düsseldorf Vampire" (TIME...