Word: strenuous
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Quickly the Committee of Public Utility Executives hopped on the fact that while the President might not have been "impressed" by last year's protest to the Securities Exchange Act, it was strenuous public opposition, and nothing else, that made that measure in its final form a workable piece of legislation. Moreover, the President's views by no means jibed with the harsh wording of the Wheeler-Rayburn Bill itself, which President Hugh S. Magill of the American Federation of Utility Investors called "one of the most autocratic and destructive measures ever introduced in Congress...
...Both Leginska and Brico have been accused of aping masculine attire. Fact is, the shoulder straps of a conventional evening-gown could never survive an evening of strenuous conducting...
Once called by his friends "the Jewish Hamlet," because of his lean, ascetic face, Mr. Nathan now boasts a growing waistline that causes him to toy with the idea of substituting sailing for such strenuous pastimes as fencing and tennis. He will no longer play the cello, for his professional cellist wife, Nancy Wilson, makes him embarrassed about his inferior skill...
Back in 1923 philosophic Frederick Head, father of five, stopped working. For twelve long years he has done nothing more strenuous than draw $8.50 every week from Britain's dole-in all some $5,000. Urged to attend free classes at a government school to learn a gainful trade, Mr. Head always replied: "I wouldn't waste my time in no school...
...Administration, however, has no intention of confining its strenuous strivings for Federal regulation of a great natural resource to a mere code. But Vice President Garner and some of Mr. Roosevelt's best legislative friends are good Texas Democrats who mortally hate & fear the thought of Federal meddling in their State's biggest business. It was the Texas delegation that succeeded in shelving the toothy Thomas-Disney oil control bill in the last session of Congress. Even last week Texas' Congressman Sam Rayburn, who chairmans the powerful House Interstate Commerce Committee, took time out to thunder...