Word: straining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...experienced in 1919 and 1920. For the most part, anxiety on this score seems groundless. The 1919 boom arose from the world shortage of goods after the war, and our huge consequent exports which were recklessly financed with long-term banking credits. These latter, together with the additional strain placed upon the banks by the great rise in commodity prices, came upon a money market already badly inflated by war conditions. When our credit facilities were exhausted liquidation naturally followed, with the result which is still a nightmare to Mr. Babbitt...
...will deny that pillars of antiquity in the fabric of certain human institutions preserve for them a certain charm and dignity. However, where such pillars are substituted for scientific pillars capable of shouldering the increased load with less strain, grave danger is unnecessarily involved. It cannot possibly be that Harvard has extended the rule of the survival of the fittest in its fullest sense. This is impossible, for it is opposed to reason...
Against Cornell and Dartmouth, the track team will be put to an equal strain, and will have its first important chance to prove itself under Captain Burke and its new coach. The Dartmouth coach has devised an "equation of victory"--but he overlooks the unknown "x," the element of extra strength that the University trackmen will be able to call up against such worthy opponents...
...period of strain and stress is certain to be followed by a period of relaxation. During that period, fortunately or unfortunately. New Haven is scattered with guests, and the country is scattered with undergraduates. There is a tendency on such occasions for the youthful rake to indulge in excessive drinking, which brings sadly enough disrepute upon the University. Couse quently it is the undergraduate duty, whether at dances in New York. New Haven or Hartford, to remember the debt and responsibility to Yale and to act as a gentleman will, rationally and with discretion. For liberty without responsibility leads...
Perhaps this is sometimes unfortunate, for toward the last Lane wrote at times in a tenor of depression, at times under a great nervous strain in a tenor of lightness bordering on hysteria. Here the reader will feel that he is not with the Lane whom he has followed for the years of his public life...