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Robert C. Lasch '54 has been awarded the top undergraduate prize of $500 in the 1954 Bowdoin Essay Contest, for his dissertation on "The Strenuous Life: Roosevelt, Beveridge and Lodge." He is one of the six Bowdoin prize winners for the current academic year, including three undergraduates and three graduate students...
...Guts" strategy is sometimes impracticable because of the size of the apparatus. A less strenuous type of phonemanship is the "Bell Method." In this ploy, one need only carry with him a set of bells. After having mastered the different sound combinations by which the operator can tell how much is put into the machine, the phonester merely taps his bells in the proper rhythm and places his call...
Often it is strenuous and strident. The ordinary United States citizen is bound to have the greatest difficulty in drawing a distinction between the tiny minority in Britain and other Commonwealth and Eu- ropean countries who sincerely but misguidedly believe the free world can be saved without vigorous American leadership and the great bulk of each nation that thanks God for that leadership and prays only that it may make no fatal mistake...
...voters were subjected to a strenuous ideological going-over to persuade them to elect an all-Communist slate...
...poll results asserted that the Elis prefer a "loss strenuous form of competition" for membership in an organization and wanted a specified limit to the number of heeling hours per week...