Word: strenuous
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...hands of the founder's sons until 1929, when Walter White was killed in an automobile accident. Coca-Cola's Robert W. Woodruff then stepped in but soon found commuting between Coca-Cola offices in Atlanta and White's offices in Cleveland too strenuous. After Ashton G. Bean was installed as president, White went to the altar with Studebaker, but a 3% stockholders' minority was unable to hold its peace forever, and the union was never solemnized. Upshot was the Studebaker receivership, the Studebaker-Pierce...
After several weeks of strenuous practice, devoted mainly to basic principles, the Harvard Freshman swimming team will meet Massachusetts Institute of Technology at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon...
Britain's Royal House. The Aga Khan sent an elephant tusk. Since the groom was George V's third son Henry. Duke of Gloucester, 35, strenuous British efforts were made to hush the lawsuit last week over the wedding dress. Supposed to have been entirely "British- made" by Norman Hartnell, Ltd. of London, Lady Alice's dress was in fact cut by M. Albert Cezard. Suing French Cutter Cezard last week, famed Italian-blooded Schiaparelli charged in London's Court of Appeals that he is under contract to her not to cut for a competitor until...
This poppycock is acted with such dash and ingratiating crudness that the show proves a succession of highly amusing situations productive of constant laughter. Teddy Hart, Jean Casto, Hume Cronyn and Betty Field stand out in a cast which is admirably fitted, physically and vocally for the strenuous activities of "Three Men on a Horse." It's the McCoy...
...time to return to the dismal white wastes broken only by the peak of Memorial Hall. After the briefest snatch of relief, festivities are suddenly exchanged for facts, conviviality for colloquy. And because the recess is so short, the Yuletide days of a Harvard man are the acme of strenuous relaxation and busy indolence. The student comes back from his vacation completely worn out. It is at least possible that a longer recess would not be so exhaustingly packed...