Word: straining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris before breakfast,--by airplane. Not to be outdone, the "Daily News" announces that every subscriber may obtain insurance for himself and all his family under sixteen, against mumps, typhoid, or loss of laundry, free. Other papers are taking up the gage of battle and London rocks under the strain. It is interesting to speculate on the adoption of similar policies by our "wide-awake" American press. The possibilities are limitless. Imagine the staid old "Evening Transcript" taking in washing, or that specialist in muck raking,--the "Boston Orifiamme"--offering to insure any of its subscribers so rash...
...this material the Boston Stock Company seemed, somehow, to move with less than usual skill. Miss Mason as Joan did some excellent work in the scence where she is supposed to be under great nervous strain, but on the whole the acting lacked that sureness of touch which the play demands if it is to be lifted out of the commonplace. The characterization is not subtile, but neither is it obvious; careful handling of the parts is essential to a good effect. As Peter, Miss Goad's voice is much against her, and her portrayal...
...practice of borrowing on uncertain future earnings," he went on, "combined with the financial strain of the Great War, has driven the railroads into bankruptcy". Mr. Plumb then demonstrated that the railroads are a mirror of the condition of industry in general at the present time...
...order; it has ratified the Four Power Treaty. Of course two and a half months may seem a long period of deliberation, but then the Senate never hurries even when dealing with the simplest problems. The Versailles Treaty was debated for nine months so we need not strain at a mere two and a half...
...answer we should make to the general public is this: You are putting too heavy a strain upon us. You are asking of us more than you have the right to ask and more than we have the right to give, and you are subjecting the young men in our colleges and the boys in our schools to a temptation which they ought not to have to bear and which is good neither for them nor for the colleges...