Word: arduous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University Theatre which has made its way out of the commercial entanglements that threatened to smother it at birth and which now provides movies whose average caliber is surprisingly high, one may feel well fortified against the entrenchments of the imminent winter, when hegiras to Boston seem long and arduous. The infant industry has a way of filling in empty hours which is pleasant and occasionally beneficial. It serves well as a target for the highbrow's scorn but it also serves equally well as a remedy for his ennui...
...introducing the new tutorial regime the government of the University faced its most arduous task; acclimatization of an unfamiliar public to a strange order of things. It is fair to say that this initial opposition has been successfully broached and now the word tutorial is significant of a cooperative and not a one-side effort. The second barrier is that stressed by Mr. Aiken--the unification of the results of the tutorial system. As matters stand now the tutorial assistance offered students meets with no adequate appreciation until the Senior year, when it is brought to bear on the incipient...
...called "The Land of the Living Death." Actually, the Molokai leper colons -made famous through the writings of Robert Louis Stevenson and by the successful experiments there with chaulmoogra oil, leprosy specific-occupies only a small triangle of land around the isolated village of Kalaupapa, inaccessible save by an arduous path which is easily guarded. Only about 40 lepers now remain at the colony, many having been discharged in recent years after chaulmoogra oil treatment. Molokai itself is fifth in size of the Hawaiian group, having an area about one-fifth the size of Rhode Island. Flyers Smith and Bronte...
When Thomas Mann had thus finished the arduous task of getting clear with his ancestry, he started immediately on the next step in his autobiographic way of dealing with problems...
...autumn on Mount Mikeno in the Belgian Congo (TIME, May 23). The Akeley expedition obtained and preserved 'gorillas, studied the scenery of their haunts, aided the Johnsons in photography. Soon, in the Akeley-African hall of the American Museum of Natural History will be many a tribute to the arduous work that hastened the death of Explorer Carl Ethan Akeley, scientist-explorer-sculptor extraordinary...