Word: strenuous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strenuous, heart-breaking ordeal. Under a constant nervous strain, working long hours, haunted by the fear of blundering, learning that doctors were capable of alibiing themselves by blaming nurses, the girls often went to pieces, lost credit for months of work by hysterical outbursts or reckless dissipation. Belinda made her first blunder as an apprentice...
When the last trunk has been delivered to Wigglesworth, the Express Agency settles down to the less strenuous but equally efficient job of shuttling hundreds of student laundry cases weekly between Cambridge and home towns for those students who wish to have these bundles picked up and receipted for at the dormitory, avoiding the weekly trudge to the postoffice...
...unprecedented turnout of several hundred thousand, including many of John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers, each of whom has been asked to contribute $1 toward the President's reelection. The Roosevelt panama was crushed completely out of shape in an afternoon of strenuous hat-waving at enthusiastic admirers...
...drunk to the King and culture was crippled by an affected admiration for English writing. In Connecticut the dry, energetic, cranky old genius, Noah Webster, was working out his dictionary that would establish a national language as a bond of national unity. New England life might be hard and strenuous, but when intellectuals looked toward Europe they saw a continent that was exhausted by the Napoleonic Wars. At the sight of such overseas confusion, despair and "moral degradation," they grew strong with confidence in their own simpler environment and in their moral serenity and self-reliance...
...Secretary's doctor packed him off to the country for a "complete rest," and pretty Mrs. Eden explained that her poor "Tony" has been working 16 hours-per-day. His previous letdown (TIME, April 15, 1935) was after he over-exerted himself meeting on one trip those two strenuous dictators Hitler & Stalin, men accustomed to work 16 hours-per-day as long as may be necessary, without cracking...