Word: straining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...objection to the daily newspaper is that it is too great a strain on the eyes, and consumes too much time and attention to pore through its endless columns to extract a grain of wheat from mountains of chaff. But TIME does not exhibit a greater discrimination between essential and nonessential facts. Facts that vitally affect the progress of human affairs throughout the world, facts of business and industry, of scientific discovery and achievement, of race and political and religious belief, are half glimpsed or wholly ignored or suppressed...
Three years ago he stated that Santa Barbara would be shaken. Last summer that prophecy was fulfilled (TIME, July 6). The earthquake was purely local, and failed to relieve the general strain which pulls at the terrain from Elsinore, to San Gabriel, between which, at an angle, lies Los Angeles. Like Dean Mather of Harvard, who predicts a quake for Massachusetts (TIME, Nov. 9), Professor Willis advises people to prepare for the disaster as they would for a famine...
...Daughter of Rosie O'Grady" at the Majestic opens up in unpromising fashion. The Irish hero about to leave ould Ireland is disclosed sobbing lustily on his mother's shoulder, "Oh, mither, mither," while the old lady in turn sobs back, "Oh, me bye, me bye." In this strain of ripe old-fashioned Irish sentiment, the piece continues until the closing scene in which the two are reu- shakeup occurred in the line. Captain McMillan was the only man to remain a regular, and he was shifted to Crago's position at guard, with Bartell, who had been playing...
Following its well established precedent of presenting only plays of a distinct modern strain, the University Dramatic Club has chosen for production this winter "Mr. Paraclete", one of the most extreme types of the modern Russian theatre, by Nikolal Nikolaievitch Evreinov...
Colleges erect immense new buildings, install new systems, set enrolment limits in the thousands--in short, strain every resource to accommodate more thousands. To what end? Their Gargantuan efforts have certainly not blessed the world with a new Republic of wisdom and virtue. No one but a blind optimist would pretend so. What the mammoth machine has done is to make society over by creating a new class which has given the characteristic color to American life: a complacent, materialistic, pleasure-seeking class of half-educated men and women...