Word: strainings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conquering General Count Juichi Terauchi's army had gotten slightly behind its timetable, the Japanese lines were lengthening ominously as they stabbed further into China, and on the whole so many retreating Chinese managed to escape and fight again another day that Japanese headquarters were tense with strain-afraid of sudden intervention by Soviet Russia should it seem to Moscow that Tokyo's forces are overextended. In a stiff note this week Moscow explicitly rejected Japanese charges that Chinese planes disguised as Japanese were going to bomb the Soviet Embassy at Nanking, warned that if it is bombed...
Ultimately the picture he has acted in sets cinemaddicts atremble, but Terry Rooney has already thought himself a failure, married Rita, and fled to the South Seas. Returning a famous man, he signs a contract obliging him to fake bachelorhood for seven years. The strain tells first on Rita, who returns to Manhattan, second on Terry, who has been linked to Stephanie (Mona Barrie), the studio siren, in publicity gossip. A large plane winging eastward shows Terry on his way back to Rita, the band and Manhattan. Another good man has broken through the lucred shams of Hollywood...
...Wagnerian knight, has awarded him the rare State title of Kammersänger. Freely Der Führer admitted last week that a dozen rasping speeches, plus hours standing with right arm rising and falling as the party members passed in review are always a "personal and physical strain," and he welcomed the cool weather in Nürnberg. "When you keep moving your arm up and down in salute for hours at a stretch, you generate heat," Hitler laughed. "This continuous movement, coupled with the emotional strain, is very trying in hot weather...
...ultimate expression of a personality disorder that has progressed through known stages of a neurosis, often with physical complications recognized as hysteria." 4) It "is unresponsive to medical treatment which, in addition to being ineffective, comes too late." 5) "This disorder can be precipitated and aggravated by physical strain and fatigue, psychologic disturbance and conflict, and social and environmental diff-culties...
...salesman in Seattle and a chemical engineer in Philadelphia. Impressed by the mighty fillip the contest had given to its sales, Lorillard confounded almost all observers by announcing this week a "bigger & better" contest. For a list of prizes totaling $250,000. Old Gold fans will be invited to strain their brains, not on puzzles this time, but on the invention of apt repartee bringing up Old Golds on every occasion...