Word: strenuous
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Clubs, social groups and private households take off during the Christmas holidays for the year's most strenuous period of entertaining, ending with a heavy call for lecturers during March, it was reported by Mrs. Thurlow W. Barnes, fo the Harvard staff, who serves as booking agent for the student entertainers...
Emerging from their Lowell Houseden after directing a strenuous week of practice sessions in preparation for the encounter, the new Crimson athletic mentors predicted that their cohorts, despite a certain lack of playing technique, would win "hands down" from the more experienced Winsorites...
Five varsity heavies and five 150-pound crews will race this afternoon in the nation's biggest regatta of the year as the curtain rolls down on a strenuous fall rowing season. The race scheduled to start at 4 o'clock will be over a mile course on the Charles River Basin...
Willkie ended his campaign on the same strenuous note he pitched it soon after he wrested the nomination from the Republican convention. He addressed the women of America, appeared on a broadcast with his running mate, Sen. Charles E. Mc Nary of Oregon, and at midnight conducted an "extraordinary" last word program...
They take turns presiding over council, which ponders its business on the bench in front of D. L. Reid's general store. Knottier problems they solve by flipping a coin. Their work is strenuous, for "nearly 300 people live in or near Sandy Springs," says Moore. So neither has much time left for farming. They are not making much money out of their joint job. Said Co-Mayor Moore last week: "Our policeman collects the taxes. What is left after he is paid is divided equally betwixt Mr. Smith and me. But up to now we have...