Word: herculean
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...misfortune that frequently, in a world so lonely as ours can be, it is not possible for the questing mind of the teacher to draw peaceful satisfaction from the art of teaching. Our intellectual systems have released a world of potentialities. But each individual is faced with the Herculean task of making a personal adjustment to this formidable problem, and to the war generation even more than to ourselves this presents an undertaking which is sometimes too much...
Year ago the announcement would have caused more of a stir, but since the Hoover Moratorium it has become increasingly evident that it will be a Herculean task to force resumption of Reparations when the year of grace is ended. London and New York took the news calmly; only the French Press screamed in anguish...
...they were surprised a minute or two later when an alternate halfback, Herbert Brackett, behind brilliant blocking, ran 75 yd. for another touchdown. Except for Gene McEver's extra point-by a line plunge-after the first touchdown, there was no other scoring. The Tennessee defense-headed by Herculean Herman Hickman-held N. Y. U., once at two inches, later at five yards, from the Tennessee goal line...
Some of them: A Herculean Russian oaf starves his way to the U. S., falls into the clutches of a crooked wrestling manager, tastes glory briefly...
...great, stupendous task devolves upon me. It seems that for a moment eloquence has gone to sleep and cobwebs have overgrown the brain, searching about for a Cicero. My task is Herculean. It takes a man with the wisdom of Solomon, the thought of Shakespeare and the oratory of Patrick Henry to properly introduce this Friend...