Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...burning buildings mingled with the smell of burning fish. By morning it was seen that fire had gutted 500 houses, one hotel, three khans (caravansaries) and a mosque. Since meat, vegetables, almost all food is sold in the "Fish Bazaar," Angora suffered a serious food shortage until the strenuous Ghazi rushed supplies up from Constantinople...
This reference was to His Majesty King Ahmed Fuad I who, plump, dusky, serene and 61, arrived last week in Berlin on a visit the reason for which was vague to most Berliners. In art circles it was said that Egypt's sovereign was making strenuous efforts to have the German Government return to Cairo the famed bust of Queen Nefertete, excavated by German archeologists in 1913 and considered one of the most important of all Egyptian sculptures...
...London, Conn,. June 17--Extremely hot weather once more prevented strenuous workouts on the part of the University crews, while interest is temporarily diverted to the waiters crew which rows Yale on the half-mile course Thursday...
Bondfield, Margaret ("Saint Maggie"), Minister of Labor, and Britain's first woman Cabinet minister, parliamentary under secretary for labor in the 1924 Labor government. So strenuous were "Saint Maggie's" hours when she worked in a draper's shop as a young girl that only once a week could she take a bath, running three-quarters of a mile to a public bath, where she had to bathe and dress in 15 minutes...
...London, Conn., June 14. The Crimson oarsmen spent another comparatively quiet day yesterday with the crucial race of the season now less than a week off. With the most strenuous part of the training season behind them the University rowers will devote the next few days largely to polishing off their form and to bringing themselves to the pink of condition physically for their battle with the Blue next Friday...