Word: arduous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...devotees of the Order of the Star in the East (Mrs. Annie Besant's Theosophist cult). The castle had just been donated to them, to be henceforth the capitol* of their faith. About the grounds ran a miniature railway bearing food for the many hundreds who waited in arduous patience to hear a "sweet, penetrating voice" issue from the soft, brown lips of their Jiddu Krishnamurti. In such tones will their "World Teacher" speak when his spirit flitters into Jiddu's tennis-playing, tea-drinking body. They saw nothing, heard nothing; they closed their congress. Soon Jiddu, under...
...everyone knows, Mr. Smith's task, though sufficiently arduous, was greatly facilitated by the fact that he had relatively few intriguing politicians to deal with. He received consistent co-operation from the virtually dictatorial regime of Regent Admiral Horthy and Premier Bethlen whose Ministry is today the oldest in Europe. (Formed June...
Scholarly work of necessity is done unobtrusively. Long hours of patient thumbing of volumes, searchings in obscure manuscripts for essential facts, do not contribute to stimulating applause or wide recognition. Yet it is just such labor which leads to valuable discoveries and important additions to knowledge. Upon arduous hours of research is built the present fabric of mental civilization...
Then "Little Phil" was 43, and his five-foot-six-inch frame (shrunken at one time during his arduous campaigning to 130 lb.) "had now begun to fill and curve with adipose.*. . ." His face was florid. . . . Irene M. Rucker, his little bride, also a devout Catholic, was a score of years younger. For 14 years they lived together, and had four children, and then, deathly ill, Sheridan received from Congress the full rank of General, a rank which he held until his death two months later...
...previous clashes with Meredith, Willcox had hung back and attempted the arduous assignment of beating his rival with a driving finish. In this race he elected to go out from the gun and it was this fact which made the record a possibility. Meredith was at the Harvard man's shoulder as they whisked past the furlong post in 21 4-5 and the Penn runner forged ahead entering the homestretch. Willcox was so spent by his early efforts that he finished fourth...