Word: strenuous
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Coach Harry Cowles has been putting his Varsity squad through strenuous workouts for the past few weeks and looks forward to a successful though difficult season...
...final chapter to the story of N. C. R. as a family concern-one of the purple romances of U. S. business history. Rooted deep in the autocratic individualism of the late Founder John Henry Patterson, N. C. R. in the early years of the century shouldered its strenuous way forward to the point where Founder Patterson could boast that he built 90% of the world's cash registers. The "inventor" of modern high-pressure salesmanship. Founder Patterson bullied and pampered his employes, told them what to eat, often shared as much as one-third of his net profits...
...squad, practicing in two groups, went through strenuous scrimmages yesterday afternoon. All members of the squad saw action during the course of the scrimmages for at least a few minutes. In addition to last year's lettermen, all of whom showed up well, E. H. Robbins '35 was outstanding...
...then, the first-string backs can improve this coming week in proportion to the improvement shown last week by the team as a whole, and a well-ordered and sufficiently keen enough eleven is gleaned from the material that is left by a strenuous season. Harvard may face Yale next Saturday on the upgrade...
...Republican David Sinton Ingalls, young and wealthy, the Navy's only War ace. At the President's request, Governor-reject Ingalls had left the Hoover sub-Cabinet as Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics to try and carry Ohio for Hoover. Rhode Island. Impressed with his strenuous campaign as the "All-Round Man" who, stripped to the waist, lugged stones (TIME, Nov. 7), voters preferred Democrat Theodore Francis Green as Governor to Republican Norman Stanley Case, incumbent...