Word: strenuous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Editor Moffat began to reach the retiring age. Passing 60, he found the editorship strenuous. Some months ago he talked the matter over with Crowell President Lee Wilder Maxwell, with Collier's Executive Director Thomas Hambly Beck. He discovered that they, too, had been thinking of a change. Last week Editor Moffat, 63, retired...
Divorced. Mrs. Kitty Lanier Lawrence Harriman; from William Averell Harriman, 37, able son of an able father, the late Edward Henry Harriman; in Paris. Graduated from Yale in 1913, Mr. Harriman was married in 1915, has two daughters, is strenuous in business and polo...
...hold a "Political Reparations Conference" in mid-August at The Hague. The immaculate, aristocratic capital of Queen Wilhelmina's tidy Netherlands would provide, it was felt, an ideally placid atmosphere. Brussels, although favored in London and Paris as the seat for the conference, was ruled out after strenuous protests were received from Berlin. The Germans claimed that Belgium is "still surcharged with war hatred...
Swan-upping differs from many another colorful, archaic British custom in that it is strenuous, gruelling work. Swan-masters and Swanherds must always start their upstream row from Southwark Bridge, despite the fact that no swans have been seen near Southwark for 100 years...
...Just prior to embarking on his strenuous vacation, President Kemal had put finishing touches to the new Turkish tariff. Last week U. S. Commercial Attache Julian E. Gillespie cabled details vital to U. S. exporters...