Word: straining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...citizens who are weary of bridge, ping-pong, cards-in-the-hat, yet who cannot endure the strain of an evening without a game in some form, were last week offered a new and original pastime invented by so famed an author as Norman Angell, British economist and pacifist. Called The Money Game and published by E. P. Dutton & Co. in the unique form of an explanatory book bound with a box of cards, the new entertainment purports to combine the thrill of cards with instruction in finance...
...view of the strain which Divisional Examinations impose upon Seniors, most of the major departments of concentration give logical encouragement to the handling of one extra course during either . Sophomore or Junior years; under ordinary circumstances this is for the sole purpose of alleviating the pressure of rigid obligations when preparation for orals and theses is in progress...
...steel colleagues told him he could run his building as high as he pleased. Their structural steel could stand any strain. The elevator men told him, however, not to go above 150 stories (2,000 feet high), because to travel higher would require too heavy elevator cables and because the cars would be required to travel more than 1,500 feet a minute. Although mine elevators travel faster than that, higher speeds bother the human ear drums, and passengers in commercial buildings would not endure discomfort. At present fastest buildings elevators go 750 feet a minute. So Mr. Kingston drew...
...heat by completely false government statements issued under the stress of war and build up in its place a real respect for the honesty and integrity of his nation. Refusing to accept his doctors orders and take a rest, he worked on for the good of Germany under the strain of internal difficulties knowing that his days were numbered. No greater services could any man perform for his country and for the rest of the world...
...district attorney for the Northern District, which includes Middlesex County. The governor drafted him to assume this position at a time when the previous district attorney had been the object of an investigation and had resigned under fire. The success of Saltonstall under these circumstances distinguished him, but the strain was thought by his friends to have hastened his death, which occurred...