Word: strenuous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...signing of the agreement by Financial Vice-President John W. Lowes '19 and Labor Leader Joseph Stefani yesterday, ended over two months of strenuous negotiation. The bargaining many times became severely strained by the threat of complete breakdown and the possibility of a walkout in House and Union dining halls...
...Favorite short-order exercise for the not too tired business man, a half-hour of squash racquets, which everybody calls squash, is equivalent to three times as much straight lawn tennis. Ideal for winter exercise, it can be learned in six months, is low on breakage and not too strenuous for any active man. It has recently attracted many women players. Most notable: British Margot Lumb, who beat Tennist Helen Jacobs last fall in the women's tennis at Forest Hills. The U. S. amateur championship, contested last month in Chicago, was won by Donald Strachan of Philadelphia...
...weary Harvardite returning to Cambridge after a strenuous New York weekend had the good fortune to witness an exceptional example of this Service. Before the train pulled into each station the conductor would poke his head inside the door and moan a sorrowful "Stamford," or "Bridgeport," or "Saybrook." However when the train was approaching the captial of Rhode Island, the monotony was broken. The conductor opened the door to make his usual station identification, but he was a changed man. The sterling spirit of the N.Y., N.H. & H. asserted itself as he loudly proclaimed. "The next station is Providence, just...
Coach Pete Peterson is putting his inexperienced Freshman swimming material through a strenuous training regime in preparation for the team's first meet with Lynn Y. M. C. A. on December...
...Dakota County farm, Harold Stassen worked his way through the University of Minnesota Law School, for three years as a Pullman conductor. Aged 23, he was elected Dakota County attorney and has held that job ever since. Blue-eyed, ruddy, with a contagious smile and natural friendliness as strenuous as that of Kentucky's Happy Chandler, Stassen soon became a force among Minnesota's Young Republicans. This year he led their test of strength against the Old Republicans, easily overwhelmed Old Guarder Martin Nelson, twice his party's candidate for Governor, and also Minneapolis' hard-boiled...