Word: strenuous
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Powers, who recently squelched Yale's famed freestyler Johnson with 2:14.5 for the furlong, qualified with a slow 2:15.2, finishing fourth in his heat. Tomorrow's finals will be a more strenuous test for the tankmen, as they will meet the champion college swimmers of the East...
...spite of an unusually strenuous schedule of extracurricular activities in Hollywood's better night clubs, Paulette Goddard remains one of this department's favorite cinema characters. La Goddard with a twinkle in her eye "gives" more than Ann Sheridan with or without sarong, to mix a metaphor. In Second Chorus, her latest picture, which co-stars her with Fred Astaire, the twinkle is still very much in evidence to the great gratification of all citizens of Brooklyn (her birth-place) and other parts of the United States...
...Mormons were neither solemn nor eccentric: they were thoroughly normal, low-born Americans and immigrants whose appetite for living was sharpened by faith, work, poverty, disaster and gaiety. Their faith was immense. Their work was strenuous and disinterested. Even the more provident of them were poor. But they endured with courage the disasters of the frontier and the depredations of their fellow...
...strenuous program of activities kept the alumni buy from 9:00 o'clock in the morning, when some 540 of them registered in the faculty room of University Hall, until late that night, when the dinner at the Boston Harvard Club ended the festivities...
...strenuous program has been outlined for the alumni, beginning at 9:00 o'clock with registration in the Faculty Room of University Hall, and ending with a dinner at the Harvard Club in the evening...