Word: straining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wholly greed that prompts this front and sacrifice. The thought is revolting. A gold rush is as much an opportunity to throw off the constantly increasing strain of civilization as one to gain wealth. The same urge that sends men toiling to the woods and streams for game whose value is rarely ever that of even the instruments that one employed to get it, sends them through a New Mexican blizzard to the town of Gold Dust. Men are more elemental than they know...
...taking an active part in politics. Rumors ran around that the Premier would soon resign and the Ministry with him. Whether or no the Premier is going to take his doctors' advice is another matter; but it was generally believed that his health could not long stand the strain of Chamber debate...
...trend in the Nation's business appeared during the past week. Money, after the first of the year strain, became noticeably easier...
Into an excessively modern, and rather stupid, marriage comes a third woman. The wife, discovering the situation, insists that her husband elope with his new lady. At the last moment, she can stand the strain no longer and accompanies the elopement. She breaks...
...fortunate." If two people--I choose not to use the word "race"--are so entirely divergent that there is small likelihood that they live harmoniously upon the same planet, I say it would be most "fortunate" that by fusion of the two one be obliterated, even though one strain be prepotent...