Word: straining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strokes maintaining a low beat throughout the long spin. At this slow pace, the eight stroked by Captain Dudley Merrill '26 showed itself decidedly superior to the other crews, and forged steadily ahead. Coming in to the boathouse, Merrill raised the stroke to a 36 without much strain, and without destroying the evenness which had characterized the low beat...
Rather than be led to strain throats at the bidding of men whom they will not respect, as they do the present cheer leaders, undergraduates will resent the stimulation of artificial enthusiasm. The Council must recognize that the spirit of undergraduate Harvard is not exactly like that of other institutions; and that therefore the methods of other institutions will not succeed here...
...Solons, to be protected from itself, and kept from doing harm. The situation in a nutshell reveals an odious tale of legislative tinkering. Books are to be mailed and backed and literature to be made a handmaid of the State Legislature, People will be led with spoonvictuals of Pollyanna strain. Authorship will amount to a disgraceful truckling to the prudes of a loud-voiced minority. The public press is to be silenced by a threat...
...pounds more than when he came here, and I am in better health. We have gone through a nominating campaign, a general election and everything else, including investigations, so that the public ought to feel that when work goes on here it is not attended with the terrific physical strain that everybody seems to think necessarily goes with the office. "President Coolidge trains for the work of his office as a prize fighter trains for a fight. He has his breakfast at 7, his luncheon at 1 and his dinner at 7. He takes his exercise regularly in the morning...
...place on the Government bench. It was his first public appearance since his illness (TIME, Dec. 22, et seq.), and he attended the session, as he said, to prove his protesting doctors false prophets. To his friends, he said that he was feeling perfectly able to stand the strain of debate...