Word: strenuous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actually the rules were not changed. The credentials committee simply stalled. Efforts to spur the committee to action were futile, though so strenuous at one time that Bill Green broke his gavel pounding for order. Apparently the plan was to stall until Typographer Howard departed for the gathering of C. I. O. leaders this week in Atlantic City, where, as Mr. Howard observed dryly, he usually took a vacation "at this time of year...
...Changes" are rung on a number of bells by a number of ringers, in mathematical sequence. This strenuous pastime, popular in England (see Dorothy Sayers' The Nine Tailors), involves varying the order of pealing bells so that no one succession of notes is repeated during the lengthy operation. In 1922 the Oxford Diocesan Guild and the Ancient Society of Youths rang 21,363 different changes at the rate of 28 a minute, a record...
...Negroes cavorting through its steps in the "Big Apple Night Club," a onetime synagog in Columbia, had given the name to the dance and practiced it secretly for their prom. By last week the Big Apple was gaining currency which, but for the fortunate fact that it is too strenuous for mature ballroom dancers, threatened to make it a national menace like the Charleston...
When the last trunk has been delivered, the Railway Express Agency settles down to the less strenuous but equally efficient job of shuttling hundreds of students laundry cases weekly between Cambridge and home towns for students who wish to have efficient laundry service to their homes and back to college dormitories at a very small cost. These shipments may be sent either collect or prepaid...
...week's end, as his soldiers & mules tugged at gun carriages under a sizzling Sicilian sun, Il Duce broke his strenuous trip with a swimming party at Syracuse. The barrel-chested Duce, nattily decked out in blue trunks, stood on a rock and umpired a free-style race among Cabinet members and undersecretaries...