Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...note represented strenuous efforts by the President and seven U. S. admirals to go rather more than half way to meet Mr. MacDonald's ideas of how the U. S. and Britain should achieve first naval parity and then mutual reduction of armaments. Pleased, but unwilling to make a snap decision without expert judgment, the Prime Minister personally rang up the Admiralty, asked First Lord Albert Victor Alexander to step over. When he came and approved the Hoover offer Scot MacDonald hesitated no longer. For more than a month he had been unable to say definitely whether...
Taking advantage of the coldest September weather in Cambridge history yesterday. Coach Arnold Horween '20 sent the University football. squad through the hardest grind to date. This morning the teams will be sent through a long, strenuous scrimmage period with a cut in the squad expected to follow...
After three days of conditioning workouts, the University football forces engaged in charging drill yesterday afternoon for the first time this season. Tackling the dummy, strenuous blocking, and charging the machine were all on Coach Horween's first really hard program of work...
...strenuous athlete, hunter and fisherman is Father Griffin, first U. S. volunteer to this diocese. He received an elementary education in the Parochial schools of Manhattan, then went to St. Anthony's Apostolic School, San Antonio, Tex., conducted by the Oblates. There he played baseball and basketball, led a football combination famed in the Southwest as "The Four Magicians." Summers he spent with the Oblate students and Priests at Fort Lavaca...
Author of the winning text was Robert Collier, strenuous salesman, editor and staff of Mind, Inc., a monthly magazine of practical psychology. After winning the prize he admitted that he goes to church and while he cannot attend regularly "always manages to have some part of the family there...