Word: straining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sphinx's Egyptian beard, which descended from the chin to the chest, disappeared centuries ago; and its loss threw a tremendous strain on the neck. Now the back and sides of the neck have been worn away by the erosion of time and there is danger that the head may topple off. At present the head leans slightly forward, but its weight has been eased by the breaking off of large parts of the headdress...
...fellow members, I know that of old, Cecilia and Seraphs were fascinated and men were enraptured; I know Timotheus, with magic strain, led rocks, trees and beasts to follow him; I know that the notes of Orpheus entranced them and enthralled the underworld and caused the gods to gaze thereon with envy, and I know that David drew from his harp a chord which swept the gloom from the brow of Saul and flooded Israel's palaces with music and laughter." (Applause...
High blood pressure, a disease mainly of old age results from many causes-riotous living, too strenuous athletics, brain fatigue, disease, any undue strain on the human corporation. To repair damage to worn or fatigued tissues the heart works harder to pump cleansing, healing blood. Normally the arteries-flexible, elastic, contractile tubes springing directly from the heart as the great aorta and ending far away as tiny arterioles-expand as the blood enters them, then contract progressively to push the blood onward to the ends of the body-to the brain, the vitals, the tissues of the heart itself...
...week from Dr. Stewart Paton, the psychiatrist of Princeton University and trustee of the Carnegie Institution at Washington. He calls football as played today "a menace to the mental and physical welfare of the players, upon whom its long, grilling practices and tense games impose an often unbearable physical strain." Fortified by investigations into the case of a boy who was found to have played through a whole game "in a state of mania, a menace not only to himself but also to the other players," Dr. Paton feels himself justified in condemning "football hysteria" as "a producer of both...
...only are the true interests of the college neglected by the student body, but the members of the team suffer from the nervous strain, with the result that their college work is not done thoroughly and they play their games from a sense of duty rather than...