So, as the season wanes and even beach books become strenuous reading (hey, it can't all be "The Arcades Project" or "Anna Karenina" in fresh translation), Ms. Dickinson's readers are able to search for Belushi, John, or Nicholson, Jack, or Willis, Bruce, and cut straight to the stuff the libel lawyers permitted to see print.
— but they also did a strenuous literary reading.
As in the short term experiment, more strenuous activities (reading and walking) tended to increase the protection of the home-made mask and to a lesser extent of the surgical mask, and decreased the protection by the FFP2 mask, but there was no overall significant effect of type of activity on PF (ANOVA p = 0.1).
"Despite strenuous efforts," reads the report, "the researchers were unable to locate any such families".
"Only a couple of years ago, it would have been difficult to find Chinese women breaking a sweat while lifting weights or huffing and puffing through strenuous workouts," read a recent Wall Street Journal article about the Chinese fitness craze.
Her strenuous cross-country reading tours still attracted rapt crowds, high fees, and fawning publicity.
It should involve, surely, little more strenuous activity than reading books, which he'd be doing anyway; and besides, he knows the language, so it will be a break from the other A-levels he has elected to do, viz French and German.
His health remained precarious after the punishing American tour and was further impaired by his addiction to giving the strenuous "Sikes and Nancy" reading.
The intensity of physical exercise was categorized as follows: low (no strenuous exercise such as reading, watching television or handicraft), medium (lightly strenuous exercise such as walking or bicycling for four or more times a week), keep-fit (fitness training for three or more hours a week), and sport (sports for several times a week).
During the wake periods, participants were free to engage in sedentary activities, including watching television, reading, receiving visitors, etc. Strenuous exercise was prohibited.
Between performance bouts, subjects were restricted from engaging in strenuous activities, although they were allowed to read, play games, watch movies, and interact with laboratory staff to help remain awake (no visitors were permitted).
