Word: strenuous
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...many other vegetables. They are better developed physically, have more capacity for work and endurance, escape the skeletal defects (rickets) of childhood and have the finest teeth of any race in the world. Dr. Soper added that "the cow is essentially an unclean animal" and in spite of "all strenuous efforts and precautions, the best milk" is a sort of "bacterial soup...
...percent increase in the number of employees this year includes a 25 percent rise in feminine help, a 10 percent larger increase in women than in men. Besides their usual posts as waitresses, chambermaids, and office workers, the weaker sex has assumed many positions formerly considered too strenuous for them...
...complex instrument like the synoptophore, third cousin to a stereoscope, which not only exercises eyes but helps diagnosis as well. An eye-exerciser sponsored by American Optical Co.'s Dr. J. F. Neumueller (see cut) combines mirrors, lenses, lights and stereoscopic images to give eye muscles a strenuous workout...
...hatter" Wagenfeld made his first public appearance without his hat last Friday, when he led the Labor Fellows in a strenuous game of basketball against the Nieman Fellows...
...Licia Alabanese as Carmen and Micaela, respectively. At times the proceedings, which raised an estimated $2,000 for the United Forces Opera Fund (opera seats for servicemen), resembled a football scrimmage with Lily Djanel as the ball. When it was over, she smilingly smoothed herself and said: "It was strenuous, but I enjoyed very much...