Word: straining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whom the title had brought little joy in the year he had held it. Now they were playing an extra 18 holes to decide it-Thin Legs Willie Macfarlane, Oak Ridge professional (Tuckahoe, N. Y.), and Fat Legs Robert T. Jones Jr., Atlanta amateur. It was, extra nervous strain and labor such as there was in 1923 between Jones (who won) and wee Bobby Cruickshank of Shackamaxon. Only more...
...loud music-the face of John Philip Sousa. The famed bandmaster was depicted gazing in tender contemplation at the squat object or, with a presumably acristogy inserted between his crisp military mustache and his neat professional Van dyke, enjoying a happy solace while he listened, rapt, to some exalted strain. Last week Lieut. Commander Sousa began a Supreme Court action to re cover $100,000 damages from the P. Lorillard Co., which had thus, without his permission, advertised the ''March King" cigar. He asserted that, beyond the mere trespass upon his name or af front to his taste...
...gullet," their look said. If his guilt is all that sticks there, declared Dr. J. D. Osmond to the Radiological Society of North America in Atlantic City, last week, it will not harm him. But if it is his food, he may get cancer. Said Dr. Osmond: "Prolonged nervous strain and gulping of food, such as many American business men experience today, is highly dangerous. It is apt to produce what is known as cardiospasm, when the nerves do not coordinate, and when food which is swallowed does not get into the stomach, but is retained in the gullet,* which...
When we first saw our schedules and learned that we had three classes on but one day, and only two on the other five days, we thought we had fallen into an easy proposition. We quickly learned, however, that the three-class day was a great strain, and that two lectures were about all we could satisfactorily absorb. The lecture periods are fifty minutes long and filled for the most part by rapid taking of notes, with time out for the statement of a case by a student, with possible discussion and questions. There is not time for day dreaming...
...epidemic of smallpox that last month broke out in Philadelphia, appeared, last week, to have spread to Washington and, in less degree, to Baltimore. Negro quarters of these cities were focal areas for the infection. Mortality was between 11% and 35%, indicating a virulent strain of organism...