Word: sweatingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...earth sport of wrestling and, from the looks of things, not many of his pupils are reading the sign. Jordan, a former Big Ten mat King and erstwhile captain of the Michigan wrestling team, opened official practice on the Monday after the Yale game, although several of his sweat-clothed charges were working out informally before then...
...rest cure at some stodgy, back-country hot springs. He made no speeches at all; when he sat down to listen to convention oratory, he did so with the resigned air of a man lowering himself into a mud bath for the good of his soul and his sweat glands...
...concise . . . English." The Anticipatory is the hardest exam the College offers. This year more than 950 students were eligible for the exam. Thirty passed; they were inordinately lucky or exceptionably skillful. The rest, except for those who pull down an A after the first term, will have to sweat out polyglot sections until June...
There was a new confidence in the U.S., born of the harvest and nurtured with the sweat of work, that matched the weather and the scene. At Amsterdam's first Assembly of the World Council of Churches (TIME, Sept. 13), Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr had gloomily commented: "There is so little health in the whole of our modern civilization that one cannot find the island of order from which to proceed against disorder...
...supposed to pause and pray while you are at work. American Trappist notions of contemplation do not extend to that: on the contrary you are expected to make some act of pure intention and fling yourself into the business and work up a sweat and get a great deal finished by the time it is all over. To turn it into contemplation you can occasionally mutter between your teeth: 'All for Jesus! All for Jesus!' But the idea is to keep on working...