Word: straining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...winter competition is the shortest of the three-competitions open to each class, and is of less than nine weeks duration. It is broken into two periods by the Christmas holiday which considerably alleviates its strain. It culminates shortly after the examination period, during which time the work of candidates is considerably curtailed in order that the competition might interfere as little as possible with the grades of the competing...
...more than 150,000,000 Russians, Poles, Kashubes, Serbs, Czechoslovaks, Polabs, Slovenes, Serbo-Croats, Bulgarians. All are Slavs, despite their differing nationalities, characteristics. Alfons Mucha possessed the requisite imagination and pride to epitomize this development. Proudly is he Czechoslovakian, proudly a Slav. White-haired, rugged, in this man the strain is sharply apparent. His far-off ancestors surely looked on Svetovit, three-headed God of Plenty, symbolized by sun and bull. He has the boundless Slavic intensity and energy which make the leaders of his race indefatigable in labor, irresistible in personal charm. Years ago, in Paris, his posters...
...David Lawrence, able publisher of the United States Daily, writing in the Chicago Daily News, retold an historic remark uttered in the winter of 1920 by President-elect Harding to his private secretary, George Christian. The Harding Cabinet was being selected, under much political stress & strain. The Christian-Lawrence version of Harding's remark: "George, I've just got a hunch that it's the best thing to do and a big thing to do -to pick Hoover. This fellow can be a big factor in a big constructive way in this reconstruction period...
Physiological Age is quite different from chronological age. The beginning of physical aging is failure of the body to recuperate after pronounced physical strain. If repeated spells of recuperation are needed before recovery from such a strain ? that is not old age, but it is the shadow. Physical old age may frequently be seen in individuals of 30 or 40. Before 40 nearly all men and women have begun to feel the signs. Mental old age is a more subtle matter. It comes later than physical old age and the deterioration is slower. (Charles F. Collins, for 35 years...
...Since Prohibition, the consumption of sugar in the United States has increased tremendously and as a result of the strain on the pancreatic function, diabetes has become a more prevalent disease. Diabetes is not a prominent disease in the aged, but it is particularly true in the diabetes of old age that alcohol has a useful and prominent place in the treatment of the disease...