Word: arduously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taking a much needed rest after his arduous Tercentenary duties President and Mrs. Conant sailed for England last Wednesday on the "Queen Mary." Since last April President Conant has had to prepare literally dozens of speeches for the various conferences, meetings, and semi-public events marking the celebration as well as attending to his administrative duties...
Unlike most ventures of its kind, the Bishop Hill colony left many memorabilia in its wake. The original church, school, blacksmith shop, inn, town hall remain. Thanks to a tipsy Civil War veteran who turned to painting because it was less arduous than horseshoeing, a gallery of 93 oils, among them a stack of portraits of the men who built Bishop Hill was also left behind...
...with fox terriers, feeds them cow's milk through a nipple. As soon as the young pronghorns are around two months old and weigh about 25 Ib., Rancher Belden sets about delivering them to zoos, which are always eager for them. Since most means of transport are too arduous for the delicate fawns, he uses the Ryan monoplane of his friend Bill Monday, onetime cowpuncher...
...believe in and have not been thoroughly trained in the bacterial cause of infection. And what dire calamities would immediately and inevitably befall our great centres of population, if their supplies of food and water and their sewage systems were controlled, not by men who had devoted long and arduous years to the medical sciences, but by those uninstructed and misinformed individuals who believe disease (for instance, typhoid and diphtheria) to result from the pressure of bony irregularities upon nerve...
Five pounds lighter from his jaunt afield to Arkansas, Texas, Indiana (TIME, June 22), Franklin Roosevelt settled down last week to the not-so-arduous business of getting rid of Congress. Canceling his trip to the Yale-Harvard boat races, also his week-end yacht cruise, he swept his signature across scores of bills, none of which seemed to cause him great concern. Nor did he bother to put positive pressure on Congress to block or save any important measure. Thus he had time to attend to several other matters...