Word: strained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago. It is 21 years ago that the Carnegie Institution awarded him $10,000 a year for ten years to carry on his work; 14 years since the Government turned over to him 7,680 acres of land. During his last illness (heart weakness induced by nervous strain and aggravated by gastrointestinal difficulties) he bade his gardeners toil on, and doubtless they will continue to do so, under the direction of the chartered Luther Burbank Society. Ten years ago he married his young secretary, Elizabeth J. Waters of Hastings, Mich. There were no children. To their home have come...
...friends. He gets into a Chicago nail-and-wire pool, buys a Superba motor. Paula brings his middle name into play, "S. Osgood Smith." He buys Bethlehem Steel stock and some rolling mills. In the last chapters, Paula is employing their millions to make their daughter's Semitic strain fashionable enough for the Junior League. To Sam, profits are unprofitable. Even the recurrent ghost of Evelyn has become meaningless. He endows universities with an absent gesture; lets his secretaries invent his excuses; fiddles with his radio. One program is interrupted by a ship's call, in which his daughter recognizes...
...technical arts, it may well do for the law. The call for research in law is especially strong. Lawyers, courts, legislatures, the administration of justice in general, and the administration of criminal justice in particular, are subjects of serious crit- icism on the part of the lay public. The strain upon law due to the changes in modern life, and the resulting delays, uncertainties and miscarriages demand a service from legal scholars in national law schools that can be performed by no one else...
...research professorships intended promote a different but valuable service, oven now attempted by the Law School. They are similar in conception to the imminent analysis of Boston judicial system by the Law School Faculty. They aim at a delineation of American jurisprudence, opportune in a decade of strain on judicial forms...
...working at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore,** a friend suffering from erysipelas came to him. The doctor had been working on scarlet fever. But he decided to concentrate on erysipelas. He knew, as had long been known, that streptococcus pyogenes was the cause, that of this germ there are several strains, of which one is streptococcus erysipelatis. The problem was to isolate this particular strain and to develop from it a serum. He succeeded...