Word: arduous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baudelaire, in spite of arduous anc meticulous polishing, was not a skilful nor always successful prosodist, and his vocabulary was comparatively small. Gautier, his master, wrote better verse. Anc Joris Karl Huysmans, his disciple, was more artistically erotic...
Bowing beneath the ceremony and pomp of state receptions, and the beneficent smile of official welcome, a corps of students, comprising 150 members of the Young Australia League, winds its way over the country "to see, to learn, and to make friends." The arduous moments at attention while the official representative presents the appropriate flag with the appropriate word, and the informal back slapping of local Rotarians may tend to obscure the professed view of the young adventurers...
...Yale is to be congratulated on having instituted such a valuable endowment. It comes after a series of salary raises, and should help carry on the progress they have made towards bringing the tangible reward of knowledge in New Haven into closer relationship with the current scale for equally arduous occupations...
...which he now holds no active portfolio?can carry on under another leader. After two and a half years of incessant and supremely successful work in stabilizing the franc (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926 et seq.), the Prime Minister and former President of France is anxious for release from arduous and poorly paying public duties...
...watch the races with a smile on his face, saying nothing. Horses he liked to bet on best, but (like all good gamblers) he would bet on anything uncertain. He started out as an accountant in England; he staked gamblers when they were down and out. Writing he found arduous; he got his nickname from the way he always signed a booky's ticket. He invented certain words which remained his own and did not become slang. When one of his friends died or a winner finished in the ruck, Nick would say, "He wiggled...