Word: arduous
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...stature, large in repute: David John Lewis, the learned, lovable, little Maryland ex-Congressman who was used last year in a bitter and stupid effort to purge Senator Millard Tydings (TIME, Sept. 12, et seq.).* As a worthy favorite at 70, Davey Lewis was considered too old for arduous duty on NLRB, just right for the easier routine of a railway mediator...
Died. Charles Richard Crane, 80, world traveler, onetime president of Chicago's potent Crane Co. (plumbing), onetime (1920-21) U. S. Minister to China; of pneumonia; in Palm Springs, Calif. At the age of 20, Charles Crane decided to travel "seriously," spent three months following on foot the arduous trails in a book called Archbishop Grey's Walks in Canton. He made it his business and pleasure to have a finger in every interesting pie, became fast friends with Chiang Kaishek, Thomas Masaryk, Ibn Saud. At a critical moment in Czecho-Slovakia's history he supplied Masaryk...
Inventor Houdry has an entirely new approach. In his arduous attempts to make gasoline from lignite, he happened on a catalyst (an agent that accelerates chemical action without becoming part of the product it activates) which converted crude to gasoline without the great pressure or heat required in thermal cracking. Unable to get backing in France, he found...
...surprised. Wily Zog, a onetime clan chieftain of fine old farming ancestry, has always done his business on the approval basis. He shopped for a bride in the same way. At least one European lady of title, suitable and willing to become Zog's Queen, made the arduous, chaperoned journey to Tirana, Albania's odorous, backward little capital, to seek the King's approval before he settled on the Countess Apponyi...
Further questioning brought out the fact that they only had to study it three times a week, however, which didn't seem too arduous. Party feeling was high in the little group talking to us and they all flaunted their red, shieldshaped badges with the SP on them. At Eger, where there has been much trouble recently, some more Sudetens got on who were going to the Partei Tag at Nurnberg. They, too, spoke bitterly against the government and wished for immediate betterment of their situation...