Word: strenuousness
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From a prissy little man such words would sound insufferably priggish. From Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang-who looks like the Great Buddha suddenly galvanized into something strenuous and vital-the command "Don't degenerate!" rang with significance and power. Chinese know that the largest private army in the world-150,000 men-is maintained by Feng Yu-hsiang, and that he has inspired his soldiers to a remarkable degree with his own austere strength. Each soldier has been taught a trade. The whole army can support itself indefinitely upon the Chinese countryside in Liberty, Frugality, Fraternity...
...measure towards cooling brows that may still be fevered after the national sweepstakes which came to an end last Tuesday the Vagabond recommends attendance at a lecture to be given by Professor Murdock in Harvard 2 at 10 o'clock this morning on "Benjamin Franklin." The first few strenuous years of the nations history brought forth many great men but Franklin is in many ways the most interesting of all. Washington still exists for most people as an idealized and almost superhuman character; Hamilton seems aristocratic and haughty and Jefferson is chiefly associated nowadays with various obscure principles dealing with...
...general feeling seems to be that the regulars will benefit by an extended lay off after their strenuous games of the last two week-ends and before entering the final drive of the season. With this in mind the coaches have seized the opportunity to develop the reserve material which seems at present to be in need of experience and seasoning. Remembering the old axiom that a fort is as strong as its weakest point, the work of the substitutes against the Pennsylvanians will be watched with great interest...
...prospective West Point cadet, entrance to the Military Academy involves the overcoming of higher and more strenuous obstacles than those standing before an aspirant Freshman to Harvard or other civilian colleges...
Amid the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the emergence of Czechoslovakia, the Bat'a firm weathered strenuous post-War depression and came at last into deadly cutthroat competition with the old hand-shoemaker class. One day Shoeman Bat'a cut his prices 50%. Soon hunger-haunted shoemakers paraded through Prague, displaying placards: Bat'a Shoes are Paper Shoes! Shoemaker mobs became ugly...