Word: strenuousness
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...subordinates apiece. Although soon seven men will do the work formerly done by one, none will be idle, for "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion" and there will be orgies of reports, conferences and initialing of each other's papers. After a strenuous day of memo-passing, A will still miss the commuter's special, but he will reflect with "a wry smile that late hours, like gray hairs, are among the penalties of success...
Back in Moscow after several strenuous days doing Tashkent, globe-trotting Eleanor Roosevelt, 72, spent an afternoon in bed with an upset stomach, dauntlessly rose in the evening for dinner at the Indian embassy...
...covers Cleveland like a mother hen : "This is the first time that any paper in the country has obtained the inside story of the workings of a police department by assigning a writer to the job of actual police work." Seamy Underside. It was also one of the most strenuous reportorial masquer ades since the New York World's Nellie Bly feigned madness for ten days in the lunatic asylum on Blackwell's Island. On Seltzer's instructions, Assistant Picture Editor Gordon, 25 and an exMarine, took the police civil-service test a year ago, quietly "quit...
While crew is no longer offered--it passed away in 1946--there are still currently some 17 sports from which the 'Cliffe girl may choose. They range from the very strenuous to the not-so-very. Through it all, however, these words of 'Cliffite Elizabeth Odlen, written in 1907, should be kept in mind...
...Amasa B. Ford and Herman K. Hellerstein of Cleveland's Western Reserve University noted that by far the most strenuous of all human activity is "play" -carried to the extreme of championship athletics. When energy expenditure is measured by the rate of calorie consumption, a distance runner or skier can burn up 26.5 calories per minute; healthy young men at amateur sports can work up to a fuel consumption of 18 calories per minute. The heaviest rates for steady work have been reported for coal miners as ranging from 4.3 to 5 calories per minute...