Word: strenuousness
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...competitions which last approximately 11 weeks are admittedly strenuous but absorbing and pleasant in most of their aspects. AT the end of this period those men who are elected to the Board of Editors will have the opportunity of entering further competitions for positions as officers of the CRIMSON. Previous experience, either in college or in school newspaper work is unnecessary for the student who wishes to enter one of these competitions, which offer work of a varied nature. In all departments candidates are from the start given responsible work and a free rein to their individual talents and ingenuity...
...headed by Arnold Horween '20, the gridiron aspirants are rapidly hardening into shape and are scheduled to get their first test of scrimmage today or tomorrow. The customary morning work-out has been called off today ostensibly to give the players an opportunity to rest up for a more strenuous session this afternoon. All practice is being held behind the high board fences on Soldiers Field, which were erected for the first time last year...
...think about, for placid though the waters looked, they were full of treacherous tide-rips and cold eddies which dragged him about like a chip. It was the rips and eddies, not the idle shark, that made John Radowich signal to be lifted out, after three hours of strenuous swimming had taken him only six miles. . . . Other aspirants to Mr. Wrigley's money followed Sailor Radowich by boat, including one Bodie Blewett, svelte bobbed beachling, who promised she would enter the marathon if and when held, sharks or no sharks...
...keen diplomacy made life not merely possible but enjoyable. Good humor, good sportsmanship and firm purpose seem to have been the prime characteristics of Mr. Andrews' cosmopolitan score of associates, and as their historian, Mr. Andrews is as lively as he is conscientious. He finds room to mention strenuous game hunts, native customs and practical jokes quite as plentifully as epochal discoveries and scientific excitement. There is not one boast in the book, and there might pardonably be many...
Among the equestriennes could have been seen blonde Mrs. Pethick-Lawrence, grand marshal of the crusade, onetime belle of the Weston-Super-Mare élite, later reclaimed for evangelical uplift among the fallen women of West London, later captured by gaolers for over-strenuous female Suffrage onslaughts, presently flying about speechmaking to the effect that...