Word: herculean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this is the case, it is unfortunate that the high quality performance that has largely developed under the leadership of Dr. Davison should face the possibility, however general this possibility always is, of empty seats before them. Dr. Davison has performed a Herculean task in educating a great number of Harvard men to the enjoyment of high class choral music. His inspiring leadership has been common knowledge to those who have come in contact with him or with his pupils...
...President Hoover performed a herculean labor by cleaning out of the White Stables. Seven mounts were returned to the cavalry post at Fort Myer, Va. Three Army hostlers went back to regular service. The sum of $15,000 was saved. These White House horses which nobody rode were quartered in the Army quartermaster stables at 19th Street and Virginia Avenue, N. W. In 1924 Calvin Coolidge, in a plain business suit and panama hat, once mounted a black charger named General, cantered through Potomac Park, was duly photographed for the campaign. Never again did he use a live horse...
...sleeves off the overcoat with trench knives; scalps for their sweethearts at home. A good story would be made out of an encounter with at least a Prussian Oberst! The job was just completed when they were struck dumb with terror by the appearance in the doorway of a herculean figure dressed in the same enemy color, voice and frown suggesting Ludendorff. The thieves fled in opposite directions leaving the mule to stop the Germans...
...battle between the two evangelists now promises to assume Herculean proportions. After Mr. Voliva has painfully gathered his group of faithful followers, lo, those very ones are accused, of all people in the world, of being perverted. The indignant apostle, helpless on the far side of an ocean, can only pray while the enemy makes a determined attack on his very stronghold, and of what use are new converts when the old are falling before the Amazon-like assault? It seems as if the master-believer would be forced to return to defend his hard-won following. Once in Zion...
Professor Richards, it can truly be said, gave his life to the advance of science. His revolutionary discoveries were only the reward of the Herculean efforts which he did not spare himself. Among the more important monuments of his labours, and one by no means of the least significant to Harvard, is the chemistry laboratory rising on Oxford Street, in which he took a great interest. Inasmuch as his example served as an inspiration to his followers in the field of science, nothing could be more fitting than for a memorial to be placed within the walls...