Word: strenuousness
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...neighbor assaulted one of Wingler's daughters, and Wingler swore out a warrant for his arrest. The assailant fled, but the neighbor countered by reporting to the authorities a confession alleged to have been made to him by Wingler in 1893. The arrest and conviction followed, although a strenuous defence was maintained and although the only explanation the neighbor gave for his sudden revelation was that he had recently got religion...
...University second baseball team goes into its fourth game of the season at 4 o'clock this afternoon on Soldiers Field with a record of two defeats and one tie. The seconds have had a week of strenuous practice, however, and should offer Huntington School some stiff opposition. In a five inning practice game yesterday with the regular University team, the seconds showed unexpected power by defeating the latter 4 to 1, scoring all their runs in the first inning...
...University tennis team opens a strenuous week-end schedule of three successive days this afternoon, when it meets M. I. T. on the Divinity Courts at 4 o'clock. M. I. T. lost to Yale 6-0, has defeated Boston University, and Brown, and has tied Wesleyan. In the line-up that follows the M. I. T. order of men is only tentative, and may be changed this afternoon...
...strenuous work-out was once more the order of the day for the University crews yesterday afternoon. The two eights paddled down to the Basin together and, as has been the case for the past ten days, were put through a long row interspersed with trial brushes at a high stroke...
...York attitude of "hands off" sponsored by the Democrats. To nominate Smith or Edwards would be to link the Democrats with the wet interests, nationally, and the strongest factions agree that this would be fatal. Even Senator Underwood, probably the ablest of all Democratic possibilities, is meeting with strenuous opposition because of his unfortunate "wet" tendencies...