Word: arduous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...working with tutors. Compared with other colleges that are doing something of a similar nature this number seems colossal, and the expense is large, but it is well worth all it costs. For the group of men who have built up the system it has been a long and arduous task, but it is now firmly established, and with sundry variations will be widely followed else where...
...close, someone he could rely on, now that Mr. Hughes is to depart. Intellectually he is probably the ablest man whom Mr. Coolidge has added to the Cabinet. Suave of face, almost good looking, the broad-headed type of statesman, like Borah or Underwood, he is able, active, arduous - especially in mind. He might have had a place in Harding's cabinet, but Harding, the man of good heart, was perhaps a little repelled by Warren's swift-mindedness. The departure of Mr. Hughes breaks up the "Big Three" of the Cabinet- Hughes, Mellon, Hoover...
...hardship at his age of almost 75 years to sit in the sun at an inauguration, hardship to sit in the heated convention hall. The altitude made him short of breath; and the honors that were heaped upon him were arduous. He had to attend receptions, luncheons, banquets without end. One evening, having retired early, he was aroused from his bed at 10 p.m. by two generals sent by the President to invite him to a banquet; and he rose and went. On another evening, though not feeling well, he refused to cancel an engagement to attend the opera...
After a full week of arduous labor in the famed Doria Palace at Rome, the Council of the League of Nations wound up its session; and its members scattered to the four winds...
...reported to have cost $500,000). Two portraits in his collection (A Gentleman With High Hat and Gloves in Right Hand; and A Lady with Ostrich Feather Fan in Right Hand) are the subject of the suit instituted in the Supreme Court by Prince Yusupov, a participant in the arduous murder of Monk Rasputin. Yusupov sold the pictures to Mr. Widener in 1921, but maintains that a clause in the contract gave him the privilege of repurchase at the original price plus 8% interest, provided he used his own money and wanted the pictures for his own enjoyment alone. "Assassin...