Word: strainings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...self-restricted to the smaller forms of composition (he never wrote a symphony), Ravel managed a fairly steady output of clean-cut, impeccably styled works which was interrupted only by the outbreak of the War. Frail, diminutive Ravel served as an ambulance driver; later his health collapsed under the strain. After the War he bought himself a secluded villa in the country outside Paris, where he spent most of his remaining years...
Although his face was lined and showed clearly the strain of his position, the 51-year old diplomat seemed cordial and was not at all reluctant to speak of the Far East crisis. He smoked continually but by no means nervously...
...policy in the Far Eastern crisis must depend upon how we interpret the situation within China and Japan. What are the significant tendencies in those countries? Will the new Chinese nationalism survive? Can the Japanese stand the economic strain...
Harvard practically takes two weeks in preparing for the Yale game and in getting her team into fine physical condition for it, whereas Yale has only one week to recover from the injuries and strain of the Princeton game and to prepare for Harvard...
...Mexican Government, President Cárdenas disregarded the Calles-Morrow agreement, expropriated some 850,000 acres of undeveloped oil-land leased by foreigners (TIME, Nov. 15). Last week, while foreign oil companies threatened to leave Mexico, and relations between the Mexican and U. S. Governments were under greater strain than at any time for years, President Cárdenas further confused the subject by promising to lease (but not leasing) to a British firm the rights to the undeveloped portions of the Poza Rica field, second in richness only to the Iraq field...