Word: strenuous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late as mid-July. The average number of events on teams' schedules was given: cross-country, 12; association football (soccer), 20; rugby, 28; golf, 20; hockey, 25; lacrosse, 15 ; swimming, 12. Rugby stars last year played in international matches when the interuniversity series were over. Rowing is so strenuous that college oarsmen take up practically no other sport. ". . . In idealistic England the spectator capacity at Twickenham, where many college rugby games are played, is more than 100,000, almost twice as large as the Harvard Stadium, and on more than a few occasions this structure has been filled...
...William Averell Harriman and his brother, Edward Roland Noel Harriman, formed W. A. Harriman & Co. Work, say friends, burned out the senior Harriman. Unlike his father, W. A. Harriman is a strenuous athlete, famed chiefly as a poloist. In 1920 he set out to make the U. S. great upon the sea, formed an alliance with Hamburg-American Line. Thwarted in the fulfillment of this, he has endeavored to place the name of Harriman in the air as his father did upon the land, and last year his firm together with Lehman Bros, and others backed Aviation Corp. His other...
...unofficial statement made yesterday afternoon, C. W. Dreyfus '31, said that the annual December concert of the Glee Club, usually held at the Symphony Ball in Boston, has been definitely called off, due to the strenuous rehearsing for a joint concert with the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The concert, which will be led by Serge Koussevitzky, will take place during the week of the Bach Festival, beginning Monday, March...
Minister Johnson's most strenuous experience was a 50-mi. ride on a shaggy Chinese pony up a dry river bed. This reduced the Johnsonian bulk five pounds...
...Arbor, Mich., Nov. 5, 1930-Cold weather and a high wind forced the Wolverine Varsity into the Yost Field House today for their last strenuous drill before leaving for the clash with the Crimson at Cambridge Saturday. A combination of drop kicking, punting, line plunging, and defense against Harvard was the order of the day, with Coach Barry Kipke driving his men to the limit in the final regular preparation for the feature event of the season. Tomorrow's activities will consist in a light drill before entraining for the East at 4.45 o'clock...