Word: arduous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other managerial competitions are open to the class of 1933 in soccer and cross country. The announcement of the competitions in these minor sports will be made within the next few days. They are briefer and less arduous than the football contest...
...this arduous but joyful experimentation, no one of us. I think, had any idea that what we were doing was only an ephemeral experiment. The act of faith in founding the school was being transformed into permanence. We knew that in reality the business world had summoned the school into being, and as we worked we were conscious of an increasingly favorable environment. The old training for business, formal or informal apprenticeship, was breaking down; the rule of thumb was giving way to instruments of precision and the intelligence to handle them. The majority of college graduates, even without...
...Patterson MacCracken, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, asked to be relieved. Mr. MacCracken, 40, lawyer, has been in the department for three years and handled his aeronautics duties so well that commercial aviation has been inviting him into lucrative business. However he has continued in office, including an arduous two-month inspection of European Airways (TIME, Aug. 26) until the Chief had time to consider a successor...
...more conservative O Jornal said: "Miss Brazil's mission has grown to proportions that none expected. . . . Her smile brings the two republics closer than arduous diplomacy. We Brazilians are grateful to the Americans for the distinctions shown to our countrywomen. Public opinion is grateful to the great sister republic of the North which each day becomes more beloved by Brazilians...
Combining the fundamental elements of football, basketball, and soccer, a new game, speedball, is being added to the University's intramural sports this spring in an effort to offer a fast, open game attractive to men who are not interested in the more intricate sports which require arduous training...