Word: arduous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dominated by one fact. The Socialists have bolted from the Herriot Radical-Socialist bloc, which it was hoped would solidly support the new Government. This left the residual Radicals, and indeed all the individual factions, in a "majority" position, and caused the statesmen of France to spend an arduous week trying to add up and juggle the various groups into a real majority...
...honor, then, to those who aim at one letter rather than two. An A. B. can be obtained nowadays without burning the midnight oil. But an H requires hours and hours of midnight electricity. Never, in the history of all education, has there been so arduous a night school...
This historic election and many other decisions occupied the most arduous week of the Triennial Convention...
...lively brothers Roosevelt, entered the ancient city of Kashgar (eastern Turkestan) last week. "Fine success," cable those sons of a great hunter, Theodore Jr. and Kermit Roosevelt. They had come back to their base from the rugged Tian Shan mountains after losing ponies, breath and weight in the arduous passes. Their ornithologist and curator, George K. Cherrie, was to proceed at once with their heavy bag back to civilization, via Russian Turkestan and the Caspian Sea, collecting as he went. They, the hunters, with a small, light-geared party would dash once more into the Pamir Mountains to the northward...
WHAT'S O' CLOCK-Amy Lowell- Houghton Mifflin ($2.25). These are the last poems that a very sensitive and intelligent lady wrote, most of them while she sat in her garden or study between arduous hours compiling a ponderous life of Poet John Keats (TIME, Mar. 2). As she was alone most of the time, her poems usually drifted like brilliant toy balloons, or crackled like showering sparks, out of her pure ego. Three hours she spent once, imagining, chaffing, quizzing, loving three "sister poets"-Sappho, "Ba" Browning, Emily Dickinson. When the purple grackles spent...