Word: strenuous
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Under the vast skylight of Briggs cage every afternoon these days, Coach Jaakko Mikkola is busy whipping his 150 man track tam into shape for short but strenuous indoor track program which begins January 15 with the Knights of Columbus in Boston...
...caller was George Strausser Messersmith, U.S. Ambassador to Argentina. As usual, he was hard at work. For at 63, George Messersmith, veteran of 32 years in the foreign service, has a strenuous mission: to break, if possible, the impasse which has stultified U.S.-Argentine relations for more than a decade and thus to bring some realism and understanding to U.S.-Latin American policy in general...
...democracy" practiced by China's Communists in the strategic northwest, vacated by the Japanese more than a year ago, has seemingly ended in a political mistake rivaling their military failure. This is a conclusion hard to escape after a strenuous plane, truck and rail tour of the Chahar Shansi-Suiyuan border region...
...began with TIME'S first footnote-dropped from a Press story, in the May 12, 1923 issue, on the Christian Science Monitor's attitude toward prohibition. The footnote read, in part: "It must not be inferred from the above that TIME objects to strenuous advocacy of Prohibition. Let Prohibition be supported; let it be attacked; but always fairly supported or fairly attacked. Few public questions have been so mangled by the press as this Prohibition...
...about two things-painting and horses-Remington was dead on the level. It was one of the darker hours of his life when he finally had to give up horseback riding because no horse could carry his weight. He painted and cast the horse's strenuous anatomy with freedom and exactness. Long before he died (at 48, after an appendectomy) he had his epitaph ready: "He Knew the Horse...