Word: strenuousness
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...strongest competition for second place will probably be encountered from the University of Southern California, with Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, and Cornell also counting heavily in the scoring. The injury of Charles Borah on May 5, which kept him out of strenuous training for ten days, has opened possibilities in the dash events which may considerably affect the total of the Southern California team. Such men as A. E. French '29, and T. F. Mason '30, who both did 9 and 4-5 seconds in the 100 last Saturday, will give Borah trouble in the century unless...
More at ease, relaxing after the strenuous day, the Baron continued, speaking of the possibility of establishing lighter-than-air service between the two continents. "Just as electricity is superseding petrol and coal, so will the airplane outlast the Zeppelin. These craft are too unwieldy...
...City last week and quietly lay, bolstered among fat white pillows, in bed. Ambassador Morrow had a fever; nothing serious, just a touch of grippe. Affairs of state awaited his mending. But there was no pause in the restless activity of Mr. Morrow's mind, which, accustomed to strenuous exercise, cried out for diversion at least. When his physician refused him permission to work, Mr. Morrow said: "All right, then, I will enjoy myself as I always do when I have to stay...
Sunday morning the CRIMSON team, slightly fatigued by the strenuous Saturday game, left Princeton in good spirits due to the cordial treatment which it had received at the hands of its opponents...
March Hares. In 1921, this playfully preposterous comedy by Harry Wagstaff Gribble made two appearances on the Manhattan stage. Twice, with strenuous and pathetic spasms, like a fish in the grass, it flopped. There was a fairly unanimous feeling that the play would have lasted longer had it been played with more cunning and dexterity. When it became known that Richard Bird and Vivian Tobin were to appear in a second revival, theatregoers anticipated something that might brighten the last long week in Lent...