Word: strenuous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steamers he was afraid of fire. He was relieved when he got into stage-coaches, but on one a driver was drunk, on another a wagon tongue broke, almost tipped them off a mountain. Although he does not say that he regained his health on his strenuous junket, his diary gives the impression that Southern sunshine must have been beneficial, or he could never have stood the trip home...
Coach Joe Stubbs' men really have more than one kind of a goal to shoot at this season, namely the fine record established by last year's sextet. George Ford's team was vanquished only once during a long and strenuous schedule, and then by the best McGill outfit in recent years. Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth were shellacked twice each. Queens, Toronto, and Montreal, the remaining members of the year old International Intercollegiate Hockey League, were beaten once...
Unruffled, Superintendent Johnson had his office redecorated in the modern manner (cost to Chicago taxpayers: $5,000), subscribed to a clipping service and immediately plunged into a strenuous campaign to try to make a monkey of leading educational opinion. He issued a series of decrees changing the curriculum, setting up separate vocational and academic "tracks" in the high schools, eliminating mathematics from the list of required high-school subjects, directing that pupils do their homework not at home but in the classroom. When infantile paralysis delayed opening of the schools this fall, he staged an education-by-radio stunt. Last...
...German Kaiser but of the Austrian Kaiser-that is they are Austrians who find themselves and their old homes now in the new state of Czechoslovakia. From the Sudetes Mountains many of them take the name of Sudetendeutsch, and leader of the Sudetendeutsch Partei is pudgy but strenuous Herr Konrad Henlein. He was embarrassed recently by the arrest of his chief henchman, Hans Henrich Rutha, and 16 young men as homosexuals...
...Duke's credit, as he and the Duchess returned to Paris this week before sailing for Manhattan, were 14 dawn-to-dusk days of the most intensive inspection of German industry and housing (TIME. Oct. 18). Three days of much less strenuous royal inspecting in England last week caused the 43-year-old Duke of Windsor's 34-year-old brother the Duke of Kent to quit for a few days' rest with the words...