Word: strenuousness
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...evening, feeling that he had expressed himself, he bundled off home. Next day, Mr. George Bernard Shaw used a spare five minutes to write a letter to the London Times. Said he: "The Memorial is unquestionably the real thing, with all the power of stone, the illusion of strenuous passion, that live design can give. . . . I've a great deal of sympathy with the people who hate the Epstein sample. Why should not these people have a sanctuary all to themselves? ... If Fay Compton or Gladys Cooper would pose as Rima with a stuffed pigeon on each wrist...
...every other consideration, studies not excluded; and the difference between amateurism and professionalism becomes largely a technicality. An amateur in football is certainly not an amateur in the general meaning of the word. But complaint on the score of injuries has less justification. Football, to be sure, is more strenuous than, say squash. But it is not so dangerous as lacrosse. Yet there has been no very very wide plea to abolish lacrosse...
...oarsmen in the Combination eight indulged in the most strenuous workout of all the Crimson crews today. Coach Spuhn believes the chief fault of this eight is the failure of its oarsmen to get together on the swing, and in long spins today, he devoted his entire time to correcting individual faults. As the crew has been rowing so far, it has found considerable difficulty in putting the stroke up, and the lengthening out process will only come when the eight men are swinging in unison. An improvement in this boat will probably be evident during the next few days...
...thermometer again registered 98 degrees here today, all four University crews were given six mile workouts in both the morning and the afternoon. The oarsmen are rapidly rounding into the perfect condition which results from regular living and exercise, and Dr. Harding anticipates no ill effects from such a strenuous program even in weather as warm as it was today...
...Church congress meets for decision in the autumn. Meanwhile, much strenuous religious debate-quite different from the Fundamentalist controversy, which England has long since abandoned-may be expected in the Kingdom of His Britannic Majesty and, indeed, in his Dominions Beyond the Seas...