Word: straining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They don't tell you to shoot but they might as well?they say not to let a boat get by 'at any cost.' The men are under terrific strain and are constantly being pressed by superior officers for 'results.' They want to keep their jobs and make a record and they shoot...
From now on Harvard is likely to figure in the police news every few hours. As the strain of examinations lifts more and more men annually ape the antics of the monk of Siberia whose prospects grew drearier until he burst from his cell with a loud scream. Already reports are drifting in from the expeditions of the more original freedmen. A pair of enterprising Martin Johnsons have gone on a pigeon hunt along the streets of Boston and Cambridge, popping at their feathered friends in the eaves of prominent buildings of the town with small damage to the birds...
...five. It can make 180 m. p. h. That is not fast enough to please the owner. He often makes his pilot shoot up at as sharp an angle as possible and nose-dive to the limit of safety. Few men of 65 dare put their hearts to the strain of such quick altitude changes...
...erect a temporary roof upon the conclusion of the first floor would therefore necessitate a large amount of steel, to bear the strain that will now be undertaken by the permanent trusses. The cost of a temporary roof over the first floor was estimated by the architects at $46,000, a figure which was unusually large because of the expensive material that must be included in even such a temporary structure...
...Saturday the University track team will inaugurate a new event when it participates in a triangular meet with Brown and Holy Cross in the Stadium. The Harvard custom of relying upon the flat races to carry it to victory seems destined to undergo a severe strain as both Brown and Holy Cross are strong and weak in the same divisions as Coach E. A. Farrell...