Word: strenuousness
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...Bucknell grant, new this year, provides full aid for students who graduated from Mount Carmel (Pa.) High School, lived in the town (pop. 10,760) for at least ten years before applying for help, are not habitual users of tobacco, narcotics or alcohol, and have never taken part in "strenuous athletic contests." Bucknell found four qualified applicants. Wayne State University, on the other hand, rejected a scholarship restricted to a student "who does not smoke, drink, gamble, go to church or otherwise endanger his health."-Whose many other philanthropies included wounded veterans of the Spanish-American War, the Red Cross...
...some youngsters, usually those of an introspective and sensitive nature, become addicted to it. They fall into a vicious cycle in which long hours of viewing leave them too tired to do anything more strenuous than sprawl out to do more viewing. The ultimate cure is as simple as it is radical: send the kids out to play, and after dark give them a book to read...
...with the Dance. The incredible old soldier actually looked healthier than when he started the tour, despite Paris' fears that the long journey might prove too strenuous for a man of 73. But the southern exposure obviously agreed with him, and he was feeling so well that he complained about one day's schedule not being full enough. Seasoned De Gaullologists were startled to see him hugely enjoying a colorfully costumed Bolivian "devil dance," despite his dis dain for things folkloric. They were stunned when in Chile he actually responded with a big wave to photographers' shouts...
...Language of Bolivar. As Charles de Gaulle set out this week on his strenuous, 18,000-mile South American tour, little had been left to chance. With him went more than 50 prepared speeches, dozens of signed, framed photographs, a handful of oil paintings for especially honored hosts, scores of Sevres porcelain souvenirs, two physicians, six security men, a planeload of eager newspaper and television reporters, and his shy, self-effacing wife Yvonne, who was bringing along a special wardrobe by Jacques Heim...
...father, Polar Explorer Robert Falcon Scott, died in Antarctica when Peter was two-but not before leaving a letter to his wife: "Make the boy interested in natural history; it is better than games. Above all, he must guard, and you must guard him, against indolence. Make him a strenuous...