Word: strenuousness
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...experimental laboratory animals in the interests of science. Not a new diet for them, but under new circumstances they lived during these periods in the Bellevue Hospital subject to daily tests (TIME, March 12). Every afternoon they took a walk with a member of the hospital staff; more strenuous exercise was found in running two and a half miles in Central Park...
...matter of fact, the title is a little bit misleading. Victor McLaglen, who, in his ususal manner cuts an impressive figure as Spike Madden, the chief mate of a merchantman, does not, exactly speaking, have a girl in every port. But at least he makes strenuous efforts--with the aid of his little address book--to find one at every place his ship drops anchor. Obviously, this quest, made fruitless by the activities of another sailor who precedes him by a day or so in each port of call, does not make for unity of plot. In fact the picture...
...University of Pennsylvania, three thousand at New York University and the University of Cincinnati, three-fourths of the student body of little Middlebury contributing five hundred ballots--these figures indicate that American colleges in diverse sections of the country are sufficiently aroused over what promises to be a strenuous Presidential campaign to register their opinions on paper...
...classification was right in some respects: witness the time-honored belief in German thoroughness. The continued existence of this trait is seen in a report from Berlin on the thorny path laid out for the diplomats-to-be of the young republic. The German university curriculum is a strenuous enough struggle; but after that, three years of theoretical political studies face the apprentice statesman. Add to this requirement the necessity of completely mastering a minimum of three languages, and of acquiring the sports and social graces of foreign countries; and one sees the same perserverance that has actuated scholars...
General John Joseph Pershing asked his son Francis Warren Pershing not to row on the Yale Freshman crew this year. Reason: The General considers rowing too strenuous for a youth of his son's physique...