Word: straining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ball over for the only score--then you can be sure that that player is a good back. That is what Eddie Cottle did against Georgia on Saturday. He was sent in for Failing in the second half and made things hot, and the Crackers cracked under the strain of his line hitting. He should prove a big asset against Dartmouth and the Army...
...from the French importer and apply the amount on the account of reparations due from Germany; while the importer would send only 74% of the bill to the German exporter. The German Government would, therefore, be able to reimburse the exporter in German money without causing the least strain on the exchange value of the mark...
...some unknown reason he grafted onto that brilliant and hospitable self a certain ceremonious nonconducting personality which estranges intimacy and his sense of humor-which is of the highest quality-never has been focused on himself." Of Ramsay MacDonald, Premier. "Ramsay MacDonald watches and defends himself, but whether from strain or suspicion he is not at ease about himself." Of Lord Grey, ex-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. "Lord Grey has a self that few men can influence and none can force. People do not matter to him; his intimacies are with birds, trees and squirrels." Of Lord Birkenhead...
...will promise himself not to take this play seriously, he will probably have a rather amusing evening. For it is another younger generation jeremiad and proposes that two rising scions of the wealthy Lennoxes marry, respectively, chauffeur and a chorus girl, to mix into the decadent family veins a strain of common sense, that presumably comes with commoners...
...Wonder horses" do not throng the American turf this season. The one beast talked much of as an opponent for Epinard is a Rancocas (Harry F. Sinclair) horse, Grey Lag. He, being of the Star Shoot strain, has suffered the hoof ailments that all of that get seem heir to; may require chiropody to put him in the running...