Word: straining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first is feared and loathed by Martin Scheffer, his father, but when Emma, the nurse, undertakes to bring the two together on the occasion of the child's fourteenth birthday, there is an ensuing successful rapport, and she loses hold over her old charge. But this strain is supported by the introduction of a supplementary force, for Hans sees the marionettes play Faust, and these dolls soon people his world, absorb his life. Mr. Muir has used the intricate pattern of themal relationships in the fugal form upon which to base the coordination of his characters. There are the parallel...
Amid green meadows, but perched atop a small plateau lies the Capital City of Luxembourg, seat of that pastoral realm, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, which dozes complacently between Belgium and Germany, populated by 200,000 sturdy folk of such mixed Teuto-Latin strain that they remind one of that fabulous being, the "typical American."* Thither, to the City and State of Luxembourg, there came last week the Archduke Otto of Habsburg, 15, claimant to the Hungarian throne (TIME, Jan. 24). With him arrived his mother, Zita, one-time Hungarian Queen and Austrian Empress. They came from the little fishing...
...door came Miss L. S. W. Perkins, who 30 years ago was 53, when she entertained "a little bride and groom." Last week Miss Perkins was so flustered at the bridegroom's return, that her physician expressed concern lest the excitement prove too great a strain on her 83-year-old constitution. When the onetime Premier approached, however, Miss Perkins rallied, greeted him warmly, pressed a dry kiss on Ishbel's wholesome cheek. Followed luncheon, newsgatherers excluded...
...March 21, 28). It did not seem likely that a new trial could be arranged before next autumn. During the life of the Sapiro-Ford trial the following events were chronicled: Henry Ford was badly battered in an automobile accident. Stuart Hanley, lawyer for Mr. Ford, suffered a back strain. Two of Aaron Sapiro's children came down with scarlet fever. Milton Sapiro (brother) splintered a wrist in another automobile crash. Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, chief counsel for Mr. Ford, went to the Henry Ford hospital with an acute attack of gastrointestinal trouble. ... Superstitious observers whispered that...
...duty. They do not have to work hard; they play. Men on a major league team work very bara every day or they soon lose out. Consequently when college graduates come into organized baseball, they find it very difficult to get down to the hard strain of every day playing...