Word: strainings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...head this week. Typically funking was a statement issued by the Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England: "Would that the rulers of the Reich could realize that such excesses of hatred and malice put upon the friendship which we are ready to offer them an almost intolerable strain...
...strain can be perpetuated because, according to the Mendelian three-to-one ratio, only one in four of the young rats manifests the lethal defect. Four of the females littered last week, and the colony now numbers about 30. Since zoologists by studying such anomalies can cast more light on the mystery of heredity transmission in the chromosomes, several U. S. scientists have expressed great interest in Dr. Dunn's new boarders. He plans soon to ship specimens to other laboratories...
...says simply. He wears the large black coat principally because it has huge pockets in which lots of adhesive tape may be kept. Keeping things from falling out of the pockets makes him run so stiffly. The player injured will usually have a contusion, abrasion, laceration, sprain, strain, or sometimes a fracture or dislocation...
...when hope has finally vanished from men's lives-when the revolution has failed or the plans fallen through, when escape has been frustrated, pardon refused, when even suicide has been prevented and nothing remains but the certainty of execution. The questions that haunt his novels like a strain of sombre music are these: What happens to men when they know they will die with no chance to struggle against their fate? How do they meet their death? What remains in them when the last aspiration of their personal careers, their last hope for their cause, has disappeared? Thus...
There is a lighting system in Boylston Reading Room which is only equalled by Widener in the amount of eye-strain and glare it produces...