Word: straining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...death. No religia-political pressure caused Dr. Davidson's decision; not even his double defeat by the House of Commons over his efforts to revise the Book of Common Prayer. He continues one of the brightest intellects in the House of Lords.* But he is 80 and the strain of Church of England polemics have strained his once stout physique. York, the Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, who succeeds him, is 64. He looks like George Washington; is forthright and voluble in debate. Law was his first study. He was a student in the Inner Temple. But just when...
Orphan into General. To trace the life circle which began and ended at Huatabampo would strain an epic pair of compasses...
...every Chicagoan knows, Banker Traylor sprang from a strain of Kentucky mountaineers and matured in a two-fisted town in Texas. Psychologists, pondering heredity and environment, are not surprised to find him, at 50, ready and able to oppose Benjamin Strong, scion of a long line of publicists and bankers. Fighting is in his blood. No Kentuckian was surprised, last week, when Gov. Flem D. Sampson made "Mel" Traylor a Colonel of the National Guard, named him an aide-de-camp on his personal staff. Chicago claims Banker Traylor, but the South hasn't given him up. After...
...condition. For contestants the excitements of the game are somewhat limited; like horse-racing, its primary purpose is to excite spectators who are interested 1) in observing the eccentricities with which the contestants pursue their objective, and 2) in seeing which contestant will win. Such eccentricities, augmented by the strain of long-continued competition, vary from temporary insanity to tango dancing...
Farrell and Jones were left with 36 more holes to play to settle the tie. Both showed the strain of the three days' play in their faces but not in their games. Jones, plump and thoughtful, his cowlick slicing over his eyebrow, stalked after his ball in silence while Farrell, lean and dark, walked with a gloomy air beside him. As beautiful, as effective as ever was Jones's effortless, mechanically perfect game; his drives were as long as ever, his putts as straight and his score-144-identical with that which had put him ahead...