Word: strenuousness
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Rowing an easy forty-eight, the Waiters' Crew went over the half-mile course this afternoon in what Coach Newell afterward described as an exhibition of rare form. Their time of two minutes and fifty seconds is easily a minute better than any crew before has done, and the strenuous pace told on the oarsmen at the finish when four of them keeled over...
Coach Stevens has been giving, strenuous tubbing practice to each of the oarsmen. In addition to showing each man the fine points of the stroke while the two, oarsman and coach, are in the double shell, motion pictures have been taken and the man has seen his errors on the screen in the evening...
Three newly elected deputies died from the effects of their strenuous election campaign. One M. Marcel de Larbre, physical culture expert, estimated that the average candidate covered 650 miles, delivered 60 speeches, slept 120 hours during the 20-day campaign...
Three newly-elected deputies dead from strenuous campaigning...
...college teachers--unless they happily have independent income. It should be made clear, too, that college work is no sinecure. If one goes at it with that idea, or feels himself gravitating towards it as a "sheltered career," he will suffer rude awakening. Nowhere is the strenuous life more demanded, or competition keener, or intellectual sinew and moral fibre more indispensable, or the spirit of consecrated devotion more searchingly tested. If the assay does not in these things show pretty much pure gold the vein will soon be worked out. There is no eight hour day in teaching; there...