Word: strained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Means stated that most of the Freshmen physical examinations which obliged further study were the results of heart trouble and that a special effort was made in such cases to determine the amount of activity, physical exercise in particular, which would lead to general health and yet avoid heart strain...
...then the maiden paused, as if to catch a distant strain. Like an alabaster monument of Joan of Arc she seemed to stand the guardian vestal of the light that dwells in the Hallelujah-and-Amen type of evangelism. And as she spoke her thin childish voice quavered...
...Motion picture theatres are too dark," declared Guy A. Henry, General-Director of the Eye Sight Conservation Council of America, in an article to the Crimson. "People are unnecessarily subjected to eye strain," he asserted, "in poorly lighted auditoriums...
...There is also strain of the iris muscles resulting from the prolonged dilation of the pupil and another objection is that the varying intensity of the light reflected from the screen requires constant iris action more difficult of accomplishment than under normal dilation...
...standards of illumination established for the guidance of the managers so that they may be sure that a matter so important as the general illumination of the theatre during the showing of the picture is scientifically correct and that the eyes of their patrons are not subjected to strain...