Word: strenuous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front of this fine book is a self-portrait of the only son of the late Captain Robert Scott and the celebrated English sculptor who is now Lady Hilton Young. From his father, who died returning from the South Pole, Peter Scott evidently inherited a determination to be strenuous, and from his mother a plastic talent beyond the ordinary. His book contains reproductions of 51 of his oil paintings, 16 of them in color, and a youthful gunning testament drawn largely from "my wildfowling diary." Few people have painted anything so well as Peter Scott paints the birds he knows...
...Alumni Placement Office welcomes all Seniors or underclassmen who wish to discuss their interest in business employment. To be sure the Office can be of little help to the man who is unwilling to take strenuous measures to help himself, but to those men who are prepared to act on the sincere desire to find a place for themselves in the business world it can offer full cooperation and render much assistance
These first three climbs are in the nature of limbering up exercises for more strenuous climbs later and are utilized particularly for practice and instruction. They are also intended for Freshmen and others who wish to join and who have had no previous mountain-climbing experience...
...Clark has lead a long and strenuous life. Graduating from College in '74, he went the next year to the Law School receiving an L.L.B. in 1877. After a few weeks as a student in the office of Jonathan M. Wood, of Fall River, Massachusetts, in December, 1877 he passed the examinations for admission to the bar and was admitted the following March. Until 1882 he practised in Fall River, moving at that time to Erie being admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1884. For a time thereafter he ran the Erie Despatch Publishing Company, retiring from journalism...
Because of slight injuries suffered during a week of strenuous scrimmages, Captain Jim Gaffney, Tom Bilodeau, Ken Booth, Don Daughters, George Hedblom, Ralph Pope, Bob Stuart, and Henry Russell will not take part in the game. This is merely a precautionary measure for most of them. Harlow said that if the game were with an outside team, Captain Gaffney would have started...