Word: arduous
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...certain reason is found for his deviation. Some hold that he is a scout and will be found with the Class of 1942 at Princeton. Others believe that the work of the CRIMSON, with which news board he has also severed connections, proved too arduous...
...butte is said by geologists to have been carved out by erosion between 12,000 and 35,000 years ago. First reports made it appear that the plateau on top was something like a penthouse garden on the roof of a skyscraper, but such is not the case. Though arduous, the ascent to the top is far from impossible and the worst of the climb is confined to a steep sandstone slope near the top. Yet before the expedition reached its goal, Shiva Temple was touted as a "biological island" whose animal life, if any remained, must have been isolated...
...supply of cheap labor (Bengal, with about 50,000,000 inhabitants, is the most densely populated province in India). Working farms of two or three acres apiece, Bengal natives took more land out of rice, on which they live, and planted it with jute. Like cotton, this crop requires arduous cultivation in the hottest season of the year. Most fun for broiling Bengali is "retting"-soaking the cut stalks in pools to ferment the gum out of the fibres, after which the farmers work waist deep in water at stripping the fibres from the stalks...
Throughout Paul Hindemith's arduous career few have ever doubted that he was workmanlike. Born to a poor family outside Frankfort in 1895, he was only four when his father began to give him music lessons. At 13, he was helping support the family by playing at theatres and dances. At 15, he was concert-touring with his sister, a talented pianist. In 1915 Hindemith became concertmaster of the Frankfort Opera, but was conscripted for the army shortly afterward. There he served as a drummer because he had no training in brasses. After the Armistice Hindemith returned to Frankfort...
...CATHOLICS WE ARE APPALLED BY THE SACRIFICE IN PRECIOUS HEALTH THAT THE VIA CRUCIS OF THE MOTHER CHURCH IS COSTING OUR HOLY FATHER. WE HUMBLY SUGGEST HIS HOLINESS CONSIDER RETIRING TO A TRANQUIL LIFE LEAVING HIS ARDUOUS TASK TO AN ENLIGHTENED AMERICAN PRELATE WITH FRESH VIGOR TO CONTINUE THE STRUGGLE FOR CHRISTIAN JUSTICE. YOUR OBEDIENT CHILDREN...