Word: herculean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spectator the Dartmouth game means an exciting spectacular contest. To the Harvard player it means a clean hard fought game in which sudden off tackle plays, and powerful end runs require herculean defensive efforts and in which the fear of long forward passes caught by fleet, sure fingered ends is ever present...
Foremost in the collection is the reclining Idaean Hercules. His body is graceful rather than Herculean, his face Attic rather than Theban. To him is attributed the glory of founding the Olympian games and it is no wonder that the Athenians represented him as more lithe, less ponderous than the deity venerated by the despised Boeotians. He reposes on lion skins, suggestive of swift strength, leisurely superior to operose muscularity...
...diamond unit which might threaten to upset the supremacy of the strongest editorial nines of the Eastern seaboard. Reports from the CRIMSON's special-Princeton correspondent, however, herald the team, which the Prince is sending to Cambridge as one which only a rare combination of air tight pitching and Herculean efforts with the bat can overcome...
Backstage in "Sunny" land at the Colonial his life endangered by a maze of ropes, "props" and the frantic haste of Herculean property men constructing the "S. S. Triumphant", his wits distracted by the Eight Marilyn Miller Cocktails rushing from the spotlight to their respective dressing rooms and the thunderous applause of a Saturday makinee audience, a panicky. Crimson reporter tried to follow the witticisms of Jack Donahue, famous for his funny feet...
Continuing his comments on last week's really Herculean effort to restore the lira to parity, Under Secretary Grandi declared on behalf of the Cabinet: "As the artificial inflation of industry is punctured there will be many collapses, accompanied no doubt by much suffering, but it is the only honest path open to us and Mussolini in his decisive way has determined to see it through to a finish...