Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dibble writes in part as a protest against the large mass of American biography-against its "sprawling incoherence," "parochial banalities," "maddening prolixity," "heavy slabs of adulation." His own portraits are characterized by refreshing brevity, a swift, strenuous manner, a sincere endeavor to get at the man behind the legend...
...Strenuous Americans...
Happily, all the strenuous Americans herein arbitrarily assembled are dead. Mr. Dibble has nothing to fear in the way of retaliatory protest. But the reader cannot quite escape a not unpleasant tingle of tremulous anticipation observing the trustful juxtaposition of P. T. Barnum and James J. Hill, or Admiral Dewey at bay between Jesse James and Brigham Young. Among the seven names represented between the strenuous cloth covers are one woman (Frances E. Willard); one capitalist (J. J. Hill); one sailor (Dewey); one politician (Mark Hanna); one showman (Barnum); one Latter-day Saint (Young); one bandit (James...
...Freshman basketball squad played its first full practice game of the season yesterday. Team A defeated Team B by the score of 28 to 18. There has been a short scrimmage every day this week, but yesterday's workout was the most strenuous so far. Two 15-minute halves were played...
...sport more strenuous than squash is preferred. Handball, hockey, basketball, boxing, gymnasium work, or running on the board track are among the fields from which men may choose. By this system oarsmen will run less danger of overtraining from prolonged indoor work, of which there will be plenty after the mid-year examinations...