Word: strenuous
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...silence is broken when the "after-break the "tall" and "short" stories of the week-end! These breaks in the west really furnish the spice for our daily menu of work and it is amazing how difficult it sometimes becomes on Sunday nights to do simple arithmetic after a strenuous week...
...National Jewish Hospital in Denver teaches blueprint reading, drafting, precision instrument work and other non-strenuous industrial jobs to arrested tuberculosis cases...
...support his growing family. In 1933 he lost all his teeth and could not play any more even if he wanted to. "And besides," says he, "I loan my cornet to a man and he never come back." Bunk tried trucking, at $1.50 a day. He found it too strenuous and became a stoop laborer in the rice fields. "But," says he, "I always whistle. I can whistle real good...
...times (five of them with James Dwight). At Wimbledon he played only once, was soundly beaten in an early round. Injuries he suffered in a collision with a doubles partner ended Dick Sears's lawn tennis career at his prime (25). Thereupon he took up its less strenuous ancestor, court tennis, and became the first U.S. champion at that. Despite a scarcity of opponents, Dick Sears became so good at this game that he revolutionized it with a new stroke of his own called the "American twist" service, which Jay Gould later used to win the world championship...
...Mayor will probably be sent to North Africa as an administrator of conquered territory, eventually may be U.S. administrator of a liberated Italy. New Yorkers have found nine years of the Little Flower, scolding, sulking, racing to fires, waving his cowboy hat, chasing after bingo players, a little too strenuous. Italians, weary of their high officials' maestoso struttings, might take Butch's pizzicato to their hearts...