Word: strenuous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perpetuated is very noble, and all the industry, toil, and diligence applied in the whittling very praiseworthy. The melodious drone of the instructor and the sleepy quiet of the drowsy students are strong incentives, perhaps, for all this extra-curriculum work; for, as Sir Thomas Browne once said, "To strenuous minds there is an inquietude in over quietness, and no laboriousness in labor...
...full bloom--has shown the flapper and her partner what they really are (or think they are)--has interested and amused a large percent of the careworn American Public; and for such things, should be thanked. Even if he does falter noticeably in his latest writings and his most strenuous admirers cannot but admit that he does the censure should fall "more in sorrow than in anger...
...strong team from the University of Maryland will face Princeton today in Palmer Stadium. Princeton, however, is quite able to meet strenuous opposition, for all their players are in excellent condition. This game promises to be one of the best on their schedule this season...
...Prime Minister is facing one of his greatest crises and has thrown himself on the people, "whose cause I have never betrayed during thirty-two years of strenuous public life". He has made a brilliant popular non-partisan speech. He belongs to no party except himself and he relies on the appeal of his indispensable personality. He has been criticized and laughed at; excellent! He will beg some one else to take his place and will enjoy a much-needed rest. Only, of course, he will then look on; - "and the tangle gets a little more, and the fumbling gets...
...Student life is less developed in France than in the United States, although athletics are coming to take a larger share of the students' interest. The students as a rule study very hard, in fact strenuous intellectual labor characterizes all teaching and learning in France. The graduate of the French engineering school is more highly trained from the point of view of pure science, but is perhaps somewhat weaker on the applied science and laboratory work than the American graduate of a similar institution. Each country has therefore something to offer to the other. It is perhaps undesirable to change...