Word: herculean
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...Herculean task of portraying Maugham's derelict hero, in his progressive states of degeneracy falls to Hollywood's ablest young character actor, George Sanders. Delicately he begins as the solid English bank-clerk husband, who suddenly is transformed into a callous wife-beating artist. And then Sanders has the picture to himself, for he storms through the following scenes with the biting venom of a freed tiger, trampling helter-skelter over lesser beings, tyrannizing those who are attracted to him, kicking away the happiness of those who happen to be in his way. Finally the human juggernaut comes to rest...
Since Pearl Harbor, the U.S. has made herculean efforts to conserve burlap, to get in as much more as its thin line of groaning ships can bring. By Government order, two-thirds of all burlap is earmarked for military needs, the other third for essential farm needs. Non-essential users, like carpet and furniture makers, have been denied any burlap at all. Yet U.S. warehouse stocks are now less than a third of consumption in a good year; Calcutta stocks (if the U.S. can get them) are about the same...
...easy solutions to these problems came out of Chicago last week. Defense Transport Tsar Joseph Eastman warned the transitmen that the railroads, with "a herculean job in the movement of troops," could not be expected to carry any more of the local passenger load. The conferees all agreed on one partial solution: staggered work hours for local businesses, schools, etc. Washington greatly eased its frightful traffic tie-ups by putting Government departments on staggered schedules...
...Their herculean hero burrowing for his life beneath the ground, a new power joined the Aid the Mole Axis as Lowell House interventionists last night announced the formation of a Lowell Mole Patrol...
...were on the other side of the fence. Up to this year's Dartmouth game, the quartet which, isn't in the backfield, of Gardiner, Miller, Peabody, and Pfister, were regarded as likeable chaps, capable of playing steady football, but scarcely in the light in which their Herculean feats of the last two Saturdays have placed them...