Word: arduous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There, rules which once made the House a marionnette show and now crushes the unimportant member, have never existed. To the Senate, every president, each secretary of state have submitted their treaties in fear and trembling. Even minor treaties are subject to arduous Senatorial scrutiny. Mrs. Lowry cites the fate of one concerning the Congo Free State. When the Senate finally ratified it, it "was so bedeviled as to its verbiage that it might have been an extract from a Delaware traction charter". Secretary of State Hay re-read it and stated that "he was going to have it parsed...
Nearly all our present information has been gained since Stephens's time, that is, within the last ninety years. And most of our knowledge of the glyphs has been hammered out within the past thirty years by arduous study of the inscriptions on monuments and of the texts of three Maya books, or "codiees," as the experts call them, which fortunately escaped the Spanish zeal for destroying what were considered "writings of the devil...
...poor place because the passengers inevitably borrow the books. While the lower gyro room, as the Scotchman said, is "way down, ye know". Resort is usually had to the working alleway although narrowness bothers here. The librarian has to be a man whose profane tasks are not too arduous and one for whom the printed page has a "slight glimmering of interest", sometimes a night steward, sometimes a ship's carpenter, or a baggage steward, or a master's clerk...
...against "overemphasis", upon football, ancient and often as unreasonable as the malady itself, has taken a new turn which may well prove decisive. For now it is the undergraduate who leads our way--the Harvard Crimson and the Yale News concurring. What should be a sport has become an arduous grind, endured by most of the players only because college loyalty demands the sacrifice as no less a luminary of the gridiron than George Owen declared of late in the Independent. What should be a strictly collegiate function has become a gigantic public spectacle, raising the young gentlemen engaged...
Both competitions starting tomorrow will run the usual 11 weeks, but the arduous routine of competition will be broken by the Christmas vacation. Work during the Mid-Year examination period will be so arranged as to allow candidates sufficient time for their scholastic requirements...