Word: strained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after leaving Oakland, Calif., for Honolulu in mid-Pacific. "Foggy as hell," snapped Flyer Smith's first signals. Then he seemed to get used to it and flashed: "Going fine ... we will run out of it soon." Again, he said: "Go-ing strong. . . . Radio beacon working great." The strain began to show in a later message: "Receiving set on the bum .... don't worry me," but still the sender signed a jaunty, "So long." Early in the second day fog-fear had them fairly. Flying through or above obscurity, they had not seen the Pacific since they left...
...Correspondent Frank R. Kent.-ED *TIME did not strain after such far-fetched conceits as "inhaling strawberries" but declared: "The strawberries were eaten by Foreign Minister Briand of France. . . Soon ... a rash broke out on M. Briand. (TIME, July 4.)-ED. †Cyril H. D. Dillington-Dowse (TIME, June 13)-ED. *An error. Eight-point or brevier is used. On the Letter Page, six-point...
...that of Tom Morris Jr. One dismayed Scotsman growled, "Ye're nae a gowfer at a'-ye're juist a machine." Another said: ". . . the gr-reatest gowfer in the wur-rld." Carried on Scottish shoulders to his hotel (beside the 18th fairway), Gowfer Jones hastily sought privacy. The terrific strain had ended in an attack of nausea. When it had passed he said: "I'm too happy to talk. To be a champion at St. Andrews is quite too much...
...confining the river and to it all other methods will be not more than adjuncts, auxiliaries. Writing for the New York World Herbert C. Hoover said: "The levee system needs to be revised and strengthened and, above all, we must have some other safety devices which will relieve the strain on the levee system in periods of super-floods and make them absolutely sure once and for all. . . . We cannot abolish the levee system...
...student council at Amherst for the limitation of the activities which may be undertaken by, or thrust upon, any one student in the college, is one more step along the road that many American colleges seem to be travelling. It has been many years now since the constant; grinding strain of extra-curricular activities first began to be commented upon to the disparagement of the colleges which allowed them to rob their students of every moment of their academic leisure. It has been at least as many years since the whole round of these activities was imported entire...