Word: arduous
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...fairly simple building-up, exercises since the Yale football game; but now that he has a more manageable group, he plans to start preparations for the hard season ahead. Already a program of intensive training has commenced, and the men in the squad have a vivid impression of the arduous routine work through which they will be put. They must be in topnotch shape for their first match, against M.I.T., scheduled for next Tuesday...
...appreciate very much the message which the representatives. . . have sent me on the termination of the Ottawa conference. The Queen and I thank them all. . . . Your work has been arduous and intricate, but I rejoice to think that your achievement has justified the high expectations with which the conference began...
...estimated at only 1.63% of the common stock but the Board sought him as chairman for several reasons. The position does not demand a professional railroadman. The chairman is often chosen for his financial and personal prestige. Son Harriman has both in abundance. His duties will not be so arduous that he will have to relinquish any of his other interests although friends last week reflected grimly that, having found the going hard at sea and in the air, he now beholds railroading on one of the steepest gradients in its history...
...enmities which he will acquire, which ever way he acts, will affect both his chances for the nomination, and for election if he is nominated. All that can safely be said is that on the basis of his past record he will bend both ways in an arduous effort to please both the reformers and Tammany, as he did when, after reluctantly firing Sheriff Farley, he proceeded to appoint a Tammany man as his successor. On that occasion the reformer set out to take Tammany for a ride, but they came back from the ride with the reformer inside...
...Coolidge had quietly to liquidate the scandals of the Harding regime; and Hoover is now watching the liquidation of 'Coolidge prosperity.' " The War was a calamitous setback to the U. S. Dream. "The prospect is discouraging today, but not hopeless. . . . We have a long and arduous road to travel if we are to realize our American dream in the life of our nation, but if we fail, there is nothing left but the old eternal round. The alternative is the failure of self-government, the failure of the common man to rise to full stature, the failure...