Word: straining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...during the corresponding two weeks. Such an increase in the assignments can hardly fail to bring with it unfortunate results: the work is performed in a more superficial manner which does not produce the same lasting value, and when examinations finally set in, the student at once feels the strain which has been imposed upon...
...enterprise has been undertaken. An army airplane has triumphed in its endeavor to break all existing endurance records for crafts both heavier and lighter than air. For days, aimlessly flying through space, it has remained aloft. The crew could not be daunted, even though motors should strain and fouled spark plugs almost force a landing. "Only Elijah," It has been opportunely stated, "has gone farther and longer than the Question Mark." And in commenting upon this, a secretary of aviation has added, "Good, let's trim Elijah...
...Merry del Val, but scion of an ancient Spanish family, grandee by birth and inclination, rich, sophisticated. He was the son of Don Rafael Marquis Merry del Val, secretary to the Spanish ambassador at London. His mother, the granddaughter of Brodie McGee Willcocks, onetime M. P., had mingled a strain of English blood with Merry del Val's paternal Spanish. Born in London, Merry del Val had been educated at Baylis House. He completed his theological studies in Rome and was ordained priest...
...case of severe typhoid fever in the third and fourth weeks-but with the added anxiety of attacks of dyspnoea [labored breathing due to ineffective action of the heart] and cyanosis [a disordered condition of the circulation, causing a livid, bluish color in the skin], due to strain on the heart...
...Vagabond has managed to keep up his usual gay and carefree appearance in public during the last few weeks, it has been at the price of a great mental strain. For his soul has been oppressed with the knowledge that dogging his every footstep and growing more huge and ominous every day there has been a dread spectre of Responsibility. Neglect served only to increase the bulk and fearsomeness of the apparition, and so yesterday the Vagabond surrendered and set about making out his Christmas shopping list...