Word: strenuousness
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...hangs suspended between hope and fear. The background is too strikingly encouraging for merely a "quiet confidence"; on the other hand, the omens in the industrial world are still too obscure for certainty as to conditions during the coming season. Most business men are entirely ready to do something strenuous very quickly, only they are not yet certain just what it is they should...
Because of his continued poor sight, due mainly to his strenuous term of office as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1905-1916), Viscount Grey of Fallodon (Sir Edward Grey of War fame) announced his retirement from the leadership of the Liberal Party in the House of Lords...
...When the World passed its 100,000 mark every employe received a silk hat with Mr. Pulitzer's best wishes. He usually closed all argument with a bet when the talk grew too strenuous, and the wager took the form of a hat-fre- quently five hats...
Inscrutable, Helen forged through three preliminary matches in one hour, eight minutes of playing time. Still inscrutable, she tussled through the semi-final against strenuous Mary K. Browne, ageless Californian, losing her one set of the tournament when a misunderstanding jogged her service rhythm on Miss Browne's set-point...
...Orleans. "I am traveling unofficially to Europe with my brother and members of our families, to rest from the strenuous seven months which we have gone through in Mexico and to make a survey of social, labor and economic conditions in Great Britain, France and perhaps Germany, that I may apply my observations to the benefit of my country as far as the power is vested in me. Until the promulgation of the result of the Presidential election in Mexico, it would be manifestly improper to speak in any official capaciity...