Word: strenuousness
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...first week in September should see the beginning of football training Easy conditioning work should follow, gradually becoming more strenuous, until the players are physically fit for the gruelling test of the first game. Under the present abbreviated training we cannot hope for fit condition in the opening game...
...when Captain Ellison is stick men will square off against M. I. T. at the Arena. Coach Bigelow's problem will be to select as soon as possible from the wealth of experienced material on hand the strongest possible team to carry the colors of the University in the strenuous engagements that follow. With tentative dates listed with several powerful Canadian teams during Christmas week, a smooth, strong sextet must be chosen almost at once...
...most strenuous schedule that a Harvard court team has ever faced will begin on December 17, when the strong Boston University quintet will visit the University floor. This is the only tilt before the vacation, but the M. I. T. battle on January 8 will start the list of stiff engagements, which extends to March 5, when the season comes to its climax against Yale in the Hemenway Gymnasium...
...chivalrous knight who gallops up to the enemy on horseback and kills a hundred men with one stroke of its sword instead the laughs long and loud. In the preface the play he says: "I am not convinced that the world is only held together by force of unanimous, strenuous, eloquent, trumpet tongued lying;" and he goes on to make this statement more emphatic Everybody in the play is a liar of one sort or another, and everybody but the hero is completely exposed. This latter I felt, would have been exposed if he had dared stick his face...
...conference of the organization which under his velvet-gloved hand of iron has carried Protestant Christ to all heathen corners of the globe, has consolidated faith where it already existed, 52 nations in all. He does not look his age, though he should after 38 years of the most strenuous exertion of the will...