Word: strenuousness
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...cast is distinguished by veteran and as well as new talent, and reads like a combined football and baseball lineup. The hero, Norman Rockwell, is portrayed by R. H. Booth '27, who is aided in his strenuous role by his pitching experience on last year's championship university baseball team. He is enamoured of one. Mary West, coy maid of the great open spaces, whose charms are subtly interpreted by Howard Whitmore '29, star not only of the stage but also of last year's Freshman team pitching staff...
...surprises would not be revealed until just after New Year's. With the Manhattan automobile show begins a strenuous stretch of weeks when the automobile men of the U. S. flock from city to city in a mood half carnival, half belligerent. What important Detroiters were doing last week- besides conferring finally with engineers, designers, bodybuilders and advertising experts-was to make hotel reservations, dates with friends, memoranda of wives' shopping orders, etc., etc. Their big annual party and grim selling campaign, were about to begin...
...ideas were known to be very advanced and the Board of Overseers at first rejected his election, subsequently consenting to it by divided vote. He says, "I had not taken much interest in the discussion over me and was content to find relief from the sorrow at home in strenuous labor at the Institute of Technology. When, however, my election as president had been completed--unexpectedly to me--I turned at once to the functions of the President and the needs of Harvard University, and in a few weeks had become absorbed in the new duties...
...Langley a Strenuous Climb...
There is a trail of a sort, or rather a choice of many trails, meandering over the low ledges, boulders, and sand of the chimney; it is strenuous climbing in places, but perfectly safe, and one finally emerges on the gentler and smoother upper crest and soon joins a better trail coming from Lone Pine, north of Owen's Lake, crossing the crest at Whitney Pass, and following just below the rim north to the reak, passable for horses when the snow is not took deep in some of the gulches. From here it was a short and easy climb...