Word: strenuous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strenuous program will be in order during the rest of the week, when every effort will be made to give the new combination a thorough test...
...team will make strenuous efforts to have a successful outdoor season, although the only matches scheduled so far are those in the outdoor intercollegiates to be played somewhere on Long Island May 3 to May 17. Efforts will be made to arrange a game with Yale to be played on Soldiers Field Commencement...
After a week of strenuous practice in preparation for their final game with the Yale Freshmen the 1927 quintet will leave for New Haven this afternoon at 1 o'clock. Their game will be played as a preliminary to the University-Yale clash and will begin at 7.15 tonight...
...professions and businesses open to men in the United States are open to the citizens of the republic. The chief justice is usually one of the prominent lawyers and the chief of police a capable disciplinarian. But before a citizen can be a lawyer, he must pass a strenuous bar examination. Those who are successful in business eat at the costly restaurants run by their fellow citizens, while the poor must forego deserts and cakes and eat at cheap lunch rooms...
...imperative that he rise every morning at four A. M. to remove the ashes form a half-dozen professorial furnaces. Chemistry 14b must be elected as often as possible, in order that his biographer may dwell on the painful journeys to 7.45 classes. And at least once in his strenuous college career he must attempt, unsuccessfully, to reform an institution which can be magnified into a symbol of capitalistic dominance. If this scheme is rigidly adhered to, it appears probable that attendance at Harvard will promote, rather than discourage, the Presidential prospects of the candidate...