Word: strenuous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...innovation in Union dining policy was revealed yesterday night at supper, when a Yardling was forced to sign for an uncut orange. Only after strenuous urging was he able to exercise the right of cutting the fruit to his own taste, and then at a cost of five cents...
...years ago would never have thought of going near the water. Ever since the War, and especially during the last decade, the public eye has been opening wider to the opportunities which the water has to offer, both in the way of vacation amusement and in the line of strenuous and healthy exercise all the year round. Great municipal beaches have developed near the centers of population on both seaboards to take care of the demand which could not be satisfied by private watering-places, and the support of the Olympic swimming team by the public gave striking evidence last...
...Harry Hart throve on the strenuous Chicago pace, opening a small clothing store in Chicago in 1872. When an out-of-town merchant admired their stocks, the Hart boys offered to supply him with a few suits, a move which soon led to the establishment of a wholesale house, one of their backers being a relative named Marcus Marx, who had run a general store in Hastings, Minn. Aside from drawing down profits, that was all that Marx ever had to do with Hart Schaffner & Marx...
...uniform was evening dress. In garrisons and officers' clubs in India where it was called poona, badminton was played more violently, took firmer root. Badminton's renaissance in England started soon after the War. In the U. S., where socialites had been playing dignified badminton for years, strenuous badminton did not put in an appearance until about ten years ago. About 1931, badminton began to boom. Currently it is the fastest growing game in the U. S. Last week in Chicago, the cream of the U. S. crop of 40,000 badminton addicts played the first national championship...
...handle nationally-advertised Del Monte brands, it merely resorted to what was referred to in an A. & P. general order as "putting on the heat." Although California Packing was only trying to stay within the law with a policy of one-price-to-all, A. & P. clerks made strenuous efforts to substitute other brands for Del Monte, buying was cut to a hand-to-mouth basis to annoy California Packing as much as possible, and orders were placed through brokers so that California Packing had to pay a 4% commission anyway. 'This is not spite," said Grocer Parr. "This...