Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both grimacers are converts to the latest twist in isometric exercises, which hitherto-and short of the jowls-have been used increasingly in the past decade as a means of strengthening muscles by making them push, pull and strain. Now a Manhattan nurse named Clara E. Patterson is out with a book showing how the same type of exercise, performed five minutes daily, may replace "the usual 'face-lifting' job" in slimming chins and smoothing wrinkles...
Inheritance alone would not give him his grip and facility at 23; with us hereditary statesmen and party leaders ripen later. Perhaps it is his American strain to which he adds a keenness, a shrewdness, a half-cynical personal ambition, a natural aptitude for advertisement, and happily, a sense of humor...
...master strain in his character is the rhetorician. Platform speeches and leading articles flow from him almost against his will. At dinner he talks and you can hardly tell when he leaves off, quoting his one idol, Macaulay, and begins his other, Winston Churchill...
Well understood are the tensions of college life. In order to break the tensions of mental strain, students of many universities have staged panty raids on the dormitories of nearby women colleges. To the more sophisticated Harvard male, this seems so Juvenile. After all, his women hardly ever wear any in the first place. At least not in his presence...
...1930s, when there was a chain reaction of devaluation, deflation and depression. The system has not only succeeded in that goal, but has stimulated trade and economic growth. Lately, it has shown signs of age and inadequacy, which have served to place the two reserve currencies under a strain...