Word: strained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...without serious injury to their health or academic standing or both. ... I have in mind an able and interesting girl who hitchhiked across country from the Pacific Coast a few years ago and started to work her way through Barnard. In spite of our efforts to aid her the strain had produced, by the time she graduated, permanent injury to her heart. ... As a general rule women do not earn as high salaries as men. Moreover, they look forward to marrying and are reluctant to load a debt on a young husband. A debt makes an unattractive sort of dowry...
Surprisingly enough, polo enthusiasts were last week thinking less of the approaching finals than of the poor showing of the Eastcott team, three-quarters English, which was easily eliminated by Hitchcock's four in the opening match of the series. Whether by some inherent strain of grace which prevents Englishmen from making final, unlovely exertions, or by some inscrutable play of chance, U. S. polo had again shown itself indomitably superior to British play. Since 1927 hard-riding gentlemen from the British Isles, traditional home of the polo-minded, have twice tried to capture the International trophy from...
...best horses in the world. His stud in Egypt and Lady Wentworth's stud in England are the only two horsebreeding establishments in the world (except the secret breeding tribes of the Arabian desert to which only the initiated few are admitted) where one can find an unpolluted strain of the blood to which the present day thoroughbred owes all the good that...
Slim, wasp-waisted, high-strung President Chiang Kai-shek of China seemed to crack suddenly under the strain of the Sino-Russian crisis one day last week. At a meeting of the Cabinet at Nanking he wrung his small bony hands and wailed out despairingly one of the most remarkable speeches ever made by a Chief Executive on the eve of war. "Tell me the reason," began Chiang excitedly, "tell me why Soviet Russia can oppress our people...
Such a step would put a heavy strain on British industry. Legitimate and necessary business borrowing within Great Britain would be regrettably curtailed by so high a rate. When the news flashed from Manhattan that the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank had unexpectedly boosted its rediscount rate a full percent, to 6%, it was clear that something must be said or done...