Word: strenuous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most strenuous schedule that a Harvard court team has ever faced will begin on December 17, when the strong Boston University quintet will visit the University floor. This is the only tilt before the vacation, but the M. I. T. battle on January 8 will start the list of stiff engagements, which extends to March 5, when the season comes to its climax against Yale in the Hemenway Gymnasium...
...chivalrous knight who gallops up to the enemy on horseback and kills a hundred men with one stroke of its sword instead the laughs long and loud. In the preface the play he says: "I am not convinced that the world is only held together by force of unanimous, strenuous, eloquent, trumpet tongued lying;" and he goes on to make this statement more emphatic Everybody in the play is a liar of one sort or another, and everybody but the hero is completely exposed. This latter I felt, would have been exposed if he had dared stick his face...
...conference of the organization which under his velvet-gloved hand of iron has carried Protestant Christ to all heathen corners of the globe, has consolidated faith where it already existed, 52 nations in all. He does not look his age, though he should after 38 years of the most strenuous exertion of the will...
With the Tiger clash only two days off, Coach Horween sent his football charges through one of the shortest work-outs of the season yesterday afternoon. The team has had its share of strenuous preliminary work and yesterday's brief session was calculated as part of the final finishing off process. The squad went through the usual kicking and signal drill and then finished the afternoon's work with half an hour's defensive dummy scrimmage against Princeton plays as executed by the ineligible "Princeton" combination...
Midwestern parents and pedagogues have this autumn managed to raise a new pother, on the strenuous issue: What shall the well-dressed schoolgirl wear...