Word: strenuous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Strenuous advertising copy is ready for launching next week. Excerpt: "Forceful as Rockne himself was forceful; practical as he was practical; stirring as his influence was stirring." The Rockne Six (the trade quickly called it the Rockne Coach) will sell at two prices. One model will compete with Ford, Chevrolet and Plymouth, marking Studebaker's entrance into the low priced field. The other will sell in the Pontiac and Essex range...
...Harvard Graduates who are interested in debating, it is good news to learn that the Harvard Debating Council has begun another year so auspiciously. It has arranged an interesting program for debating with other colleges and is making strenuous efforts to arouse greater interest among the students at Harvard in this highly important, though voluntary, course...
...other words, the undergraduate himself is beginning to put football in its place. If it over becomes fashionable for him to lose entire interest in the doings of the so-called 'Varsity in favor of personal participation in a slightly less strenuous adaptation, the game will cease to wag and the college and public hysteria will find another outlet. The steady growth of a more mature intelligence throughout the student bodies of the various schools of any intellectual and cultural importance will eventually accomplish all that the most hysterical. Viewer with Alarm could wish for, and with less fuss...
...mache figures of "Japanese Imperialists" strangling "Chinese Comrades." In a military order of the day, Klim Voroshilov declared: "On this 14th anniversary of the Revolution we are ready to defend our-selves." To cheering throngs in the Red Square he roared: "Our workers and peasants have proved by their strenuous labor that they can win victory in war as in the peaceful battles of industrialization!" Meanwhile the famed Third International, Moscow's bureau of world propaganda, clarioned: "Japan's war against the working masses of China is a war against us and a step toward war against the Soviet Republic...
...result of Saturday's strenuous contest, the entire A team was excused from practice yesterday while the reserves battled the Jayvees in 40 minutes of hard offensive scrimmage. The usual work on fundamentals, preceded the heavy contact work. Whitney at quarterback and Pescosolido at left half did stellar work for the reserves. The entire squad is scheduled to take part in a heavy scrimmage this afternoon...