Word: strenuous
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France's plight has reached the climatic stage. Premier Flandin's composite cabinet seems about to topple in the midst of its strenuous efforts to win a grant of dictatorial powers in order to continue a losing fight to maintain the present gold parity of the franc. Although the crisis may be staved off for the moment with the formation of a new cabinet granted the desired authority by the legislature, competent observers agree that "devaluation" must come in a very short time. Depleted reserves in the Bank of France, in addition to an increasing flight of capital...
...sixth year of the so-called depression, and the 25 months of strenuous effort under the New Deal to reform the system has only proved that it is beyond reform. . . . The conviction grows, therefore, that Capitalism must be discarded and a planned Christian economy be established...
...After a week of consultations with his father. Son James Roosevelt disposed of rumors that he might join the Presidential secretariat. The announcement from the White House explained that his New York & Boston jobs (insurance and politics) were too strenuous. Son James would therefore presently retire to the family estate at Hyde Park. There he would install a modern cost accounting system in the President's dairy, prepare a chart showing whether occasional experiments in the President's forest preserves could be made a continuous activity giving steady employment. Son James felt sure his insurance business would continue...
...unfailing appeal to the something-for-nothing instinct- though some companies make a tidy profit on their premiums by requesting cash along with wrappers, box tops, coupons and other evidences of consuming interest. In periods of stiff competition premium promotion shaves close to outright price-cutting, and a strenuous effort was made to ban premiums in XRA codes. But the premium makers succeeded in keeping no-premium clauses out of all except the Bakers and Oil Codes, are currently thriving. Another boon that has helped loft premium sales in the past two years from...
...food which contains large amounts of minerals are strong and healthy. "The natives of the South Sea Islands are a hardy, upright race. Their women of 85 are as vigorous as American women of 50. They have but few wrinkles on their faces, they retain their teeth and live strenuous lives. Their principal food is fish, which is rich in mineral content, the building material for the body. Expectant mothers eat raw fish...