Word: strenuous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After a day of complete rest at the Myopia Hunt Club, Harvard's football squad will return to the more strenuous work of putting on the finishing touches for its encounter with Yale...
...might be suspected of coming immediately under the thumb of one or another central bank. They had to secure some centrally located spot which could focus the European money markets, and one able to recommend itself by its banking facilities. Above all they must have been moved by the strenuous fight made by the Agent General for Reparations to remove from German soil all vestiges of financial "control" and to enable the German nation to regard the reparations burden as a voluntarily assumed task making for the reconstruction of Europe...
While the linemen were engaged in a strenuous session of live tackling and on the dummies, Coaches Horween, Casey and Bradford worked with the backs and ends. Skeleton teams were organized and all the finer points of play were explained. Speed and accurate timing in the execution of offensive assignments, especially in lateral pass plays, was sought. The entire squad was then given a blackboard talk...
Hanover N. H. Oct. 22--Under heavily overcast skies the Dartmouth football team went through its second strenuous practice session...
...pass plays were especially effective against the first and second strings, and Coach Cannell was not at all satisfied with the showing of the squad as a whole when the afternoon session was called on account of the descending darkness. Tomorrow afternoon will see the Green team holding a strenuous practice session, the last that will be held in preparation for the coming game this Saturday...