Word: strenuousness
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...Prime Minister is facing one of his greatest crises and has thrown himself on the people, "whose cause I have never betrayed during thirty-two years of strenuous public life". He has made a brilliant popular non-partisan speech. He belongs to no party except himself and he relies on the appeal of his indispensable personality. He has been criticized and laughed at; excellent! He will beg some one else to take his place and will enjoy a much-needed rest. Only, of course, he will then look on; - "and the tangle gets a little more, and the fumbling gets...
...Student life is less developed in France than in the United States, although athletics are coming to take a larger share of the students' interest. The students as a rule study very hard, in fact strenuous intellectual labor characterizes all teaching and learning in France. The graduate of the French engineering school is more highly trained from the point of view of pure science, but is perhaps somewhat weaker on the applied science and laboratory work than the American graduate of a similar institution. Each country has therefore something to offer to the other. It is perhaps undesirable to change...
Following a brief preliminary talk in which plans for the autumn were presented in some detail, Coach Muller sent his two crews out for a short spin and followed the shells down-stream in the coaching launch. Nothing of a strenuous nature was attempted, the main emphasis being placed on balance and getting the men accustomed to the new combination. The seating was as follows...
...work was fairly strenuous, beginning at six in the morning but as most of the instruction was given in the field there was little monotony. At seven every morning there was a test covering the previous day's work and text assignments for the day were given out. Following this was a lecture of from half an hour to an hour's duration and the rest of the day was taken up in field instruction...
...bonus and merchant marine projects are centers of so much contention that action seems very unlikely; and the summer before an election is reputed to be an almost hopeless time to secure the passage of a new tariff bill--particularly when the presses of both parties join in strenuous criticism...