Word: strained
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...undertake athletic sports, and these sports will merely be the handmaid of military or navy training. We therefore enter organized sport not with the old purpose of defeating our hereditary rivals, but merely with the purpose of turning out men in the best physical condition to undergo the strain of modern warfare." The Yale News...
France could be much speeded on the road to normal conditions if the strain of rebuilding were shifted to less tired shoulders. It will be hard enough for her to return to every-day social and economic life without the added burden of having a large part of her territory to rebuild. Our cities, which will never feel the strain of war to such a degree, can rebuild the devastated towns with half the effort it would cost the French. The results would be immediate and lasting...
...America must make a mighty effort,--and make it in force this year. The policy of another year's stalling before a grand Allied offensive in 1919 is dangerous. It takes no particular insight to see that Italy and France are tired under the strain of the war. The true instinct of immediate self-preservation which destroyed the Russian resistance is likely to spread to Western Europe if its peoples are called upon to face a fifth and a sixth year of war. We hope that Germany feels this influence first but we cannot count upon this. Half a million...
...reserve'--a sort of semirepose, after a month of hot work and strain, too. It is not that we sweat and slave greatly, but there somehow seems to be a nervous effort and tightening in driving under fire which takes it out of one physically. The result is that after our 'spells' of 24 or 48 hours we sink into lethargic repose until the next call. The days seem all alike--except that we are served 'chocolat' instead of black, sugarless coffee on Sunday mornings--and they slip by, unsung, into the tumbled yesterdays of 'a little while...
...made themselves felt before will oppose the measure on the ground that many roads will continue extravagant management and dividends of unnecessary size; they may do their utmost to so reduce the compensation and restrict the owners that some roads will not be able to stand up under the strain. Such conditions would not only be unjust to bond and stockholders, but also to the railway management which have been endeavoring in every way to keep pace with the recent demands made on them on every side...