Word: arduous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ever so humble, there is no place like a, corner of the earth never before visited by white men. So think ethnologists, natural historians, cartographers, photographers, hunters and peepers and priers and pushers, who year in and year out spend money and lives on arduous expeditions. Some expeditions and their results of late months...
...foundation to be laid--apparently eight long years--and then there is the super-structure which makes the building so attractive. The completed product is the triumph of instinct over intelligence. But a twelve year course, even with a maestra's baton in view, is rather long and arduous. Aborigines accomplished similar ends with much less difficulty...
...went to night school," may well have originated at the College of the City of New York. Of all large universities, few have carried education to so many young people whom circumstance keeps behind ribbon counters and typewriters during business hours. The administration of such an institution is arduous, requiring as it does, not only a "night shift" faculty but manipulation of the polyglot problems that arise among the offspring of a big-city population. But, like a 24-hour newspaper, City College employs a night executive, so that last week, when the board of trustees accepted the resignation...
...classes, one which demands nothing of the audience but open eyes and attentive years, and the other which makes the audience meet it half-way," stated Andre Charlot, well known as the originator and producer of Charlot's Revues, to an interviewer who was still puffing after the arduous climb up the spiral stairway which twists from the floor back stage up toward the mase of curtains and back drops to the dressing rooms of the New Park Theatre...
...sure glad I ain't building no Greek Temples," said Mr. Hendrick to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. The dialogue took place in the tenderloin region of the New Fogg Museum where the interviewer found Mr. Hendrick immersed in the arduous duties of his position. He was nursing back to health a large assemblage of huge casts of statues, vases and other impediments connected with the migration...