Word: straining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harry Augustus Garfield: Scholar, public administrator in the strain of war, for a score of years the strong, vigorous and judicious President of Williams College...
...things slide" sets up a disastrous strain unless legislation keeps pace with sliding (change), the law of nature...
...customary four hour examinations upon which the entire year's work at the Law School depends, are apparently regarded as insufficient test to qualify students for promotion. A new and more stringent means of testing the student's calibre has been devised to supplement the nervous and mental strain of the present system, namely, the requirement that student work under fire--or more literally, in the immediate presence of a roaring steamshovel. Uninterruptedly, save for one-half hour at noon, it puffs and snorts and hisses forty feet from the open windows. No longer, aparently, can one get through...
...wishing to enter into the grammatical status of that "dark-complected" gentleman, may I not suggest that perhaps the "stupid race-blindness" of which you speak might have been displayed not by Mrs. Reynolds but by those warm persuaders of the Pasha who failed to realize that the Negro strain is as evident when promulgated through a line of princes and pashas as when through the humblest Senegambian dragged unwillingly into slavery, and that, unfortunately, or otherwise, depending upon the point of view, neither title nor position can hide it from the Southerner's eye? ARCHIBALD MCDONALD...
...Cutts '28, on the mound for the University, did a workmanlike job, and with any kind of support at the critical moments, might have won. He has already pitched 11 innings last week, and the strain told on him at times. As it was, he gave only five hits, but the Crusades hit with men on the bases...