Word: arduously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More reason than one had Senator Harrison for his pessimism. Even after he got his bill out of committee, there would remain the arduous task of steering it through Floor debate and conference compromise. And this year Pat Harrison is eager to close up his desk, be off for home. It is not that he dislikes Washington, for no Senator enjoys life in the Capital more than this small town Mississippian. A one time college and semiprofessional pitcher, he likes being where he can get off to a big-league baseball game with Vice President Garner as often as possible...
...elected president of the New York Stock Exchange without opposition was Charles R. (for Richard) Gay. In an expression of appreciation for President Gay's arduous efforts to convince U. S. citizens that his is really a new deal administration, the Stock Exchange governing committee declared: ''He has sought, continually and aggressively and with demonstrable success, to remove the prejudices and misconceptions born of the Depression...
...insult to the intelligence of any but a Curley-appointed, democratic judge, the buffoon of Beacon Hill staunchly avowed that his intentions behind the proposed ouster of all judges over seventy were inspired by an utterly altruistic desire to relieve poor old men "with failing strength" from performing "arduous duties...
Back home in Independence, Alf Landon spent four years in a bank, then plunged into the oil business as an independent producer like his father. In that arduous and risky line-by enterprise, hard work, fair dealing and stiff bargaining-he made a fortune which is now estimated at from $250,000 to $2,000,000, invested chiefly in some 100 Kansas and Oklahoma wells he still owns. He also, in his comings & goings in search of oil, made friends all over Kansas. Shortly after his first wife died in 1918, Alf Landon volunteered for Army Service, was called...
...years has been adjusted satisfactorily and the courses now provide fairly complete, but not overlapping coverage of the field. Although care is to be exercised a student concentrating in Philosophy has no difficulty correlating it to any other non-scientific field, and the preparation for divisionals is not too arduous since tutorial work is the chief factor in the final grade...