Word: strenuousness
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...strenuous athlete, hunter and fisherman is Father Griffin, first U. S. volunteer to this diocese. He received an elementary education in the Parochial schools of Manhattan, then went to St. Anthony's Apostolic School, San Antonio, Tex., conducted by the Oblates. There he played baseball and basketball, led a football combination famed in the Southwest as "The Four Magicians." Summers he spent with the Oblate students and Priests at Fort Lavaca...
Author of the winning text was Robert Collier, strenuous salesman, editor and staff of Mind, Inc., a monthly magazine of practical psychology. After winning the prize he admitted that he goes to church and while he cannot attend regularly "always manages to have some part of the family there...
...Editor Moffat began to reach the retiring age. Passing 60, he found the editorship strenuous. Some months ago he talked the matter over with Crowell President Lee Wilder Maxwell, with Collier's Executive Director Thomas Hambly Beck. He discovered that they, too, had been thinking of a change. Last week Editor Moffat, 63, retired...
Divorced. Mrs. Kitty Lanier Lawrence Harriman; from William Averell Harriman, 37, able son of an able father, the late Edward Henry Harriman; in Paris. Graduated from Yale in 1913, Mr. Harriman was married in 1915, has two daughters, is strenuous in business and polo...
Swan-upping differs from many another colorful, archaic British custom in that it is strenuous, gruelling work. Swan-masters and Swanherds must always start their upstream row from Southwark Bridge, despite the fact that no swans have been seen near Southwark for 100 years...