Word: straining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Opposes Strain on Quarterback...
...health, but he held varied important positions in administration and research at Massachusetts Tech., the Carnegie Institution, the Bureau of Ordnances and Nela Park. The General Electric Company offered him absolute freedom and unsurpassed facilities for pure research; he returned there for his last years to avoid the strain of administrative work. Research was his home. He was one of the world's leading authorities on radioactivity, spectrum analysis, heat radiation of stars and planets, and pressure of light...
...Harvard was almost the only bright spot in Yale's season last year but this spring a more successful outcome is predicated. Syracuse, Cornell and Princeton games lead up to the Harvard encounter in Boston on May 24 and the Yale team will do well to withstand the strain of such a succession of hard games...
...Domino blood is the best strain on the American turf. It is Sarazen's more ways than one. This inbreeding has developed great sprinting speed. It has also made him a perfect gentleman-his demeanor is docile in stable or on track...
...course. There is no race between the American and British airmen. Colonel L. E. Broome, advance agent of the British expedition, had indeed suggested a race. But General Patrick, U. S. Chief of Air Service, very wisely refused to accept the challenge. To speed the American flight would seriously strain the equipment and increase the hazard of our gallant officers...