Word: arduous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...justified in giving up distance running after he has entered business. It is may belief that there is more wear on a man's physique in distance running than, for instance, in the quarter and half-mile events. The training for the two-mile run must perforce be arduous. This is particularly true in the summer season, because training in warm weather caused loss of weight, and this, in turn, brings on exhaustion and loss of nervous energy...
...next evening when the initial curtain went up the presidents of the four Harvard classes appeared on the stage apology for the demonstration of the previous evening. It also appears that the actors enjoyed a peaceful evening as a reward for their arduous labors of the opening performance. That the indignation of Boston people had not yet been appeased is brought out in a Herald editorial of April...
...good-part of this purpose Harvard and Yale were successful at Cambridge on Saturday night. A much more sizable audience was lured to Paine Hall than the pitiful handful which has sat at the ringside of many an arduous intercollegiate debate in the past. And the attentive observer had many free and fair chances to laugh. Unfortunately, however, he had also much occasion to groan. For one thing the speakers for Yale established so complete a monopoly upon the humor of the evening that the Department of Justice might well bring suit against them for a combination in restraint...
...feeding of infants when the mothers cannot do so with their own milk has been an arduous task for physicians. They have been at their wit's end for substitutes. Wet nurses will not always do, sometimes because they are unavailable, more often because they may suffer from contagious diseases to which their own offspring may be immune. Dr. Brouzet (Sur I'education medecinale des enfants) thought so poorly of human mothers that he wished the state to interfere and keep them from suckling their young lest they communicate immorality and disease. The chemist Van Helmont called milk "brute food...
Last week, a new mailcarrier entered the Government service, a thin, slightly wizened little man of 62 with graying hair. He was no man for arduous marches in extremes of weather. But he had not undertaken his job because of the stoutness of his legs and constitution. He had a fleet of aeroplanes, a corps of pilots. He had contracted to whisk letters and packages from Cleveland and Chicago to his home city, Detroit, and vice versa. His first plane, though he was not in it, was met at Cleveland by a fleet of Army pursuit planes. Unloading, loading...