Word: strainings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...denying any immediate lineup changes. Until yesterday it was feared that Harlow would be forced to make one switch in order to meet the loss of Burgy Ayres at center. But cheering news was released yesterday when the medical staff announced that Burgy had suffered only a muscle strain and not a dislocated shoulder or collarbone...
...super-stolid North Germany, people's nerves seemed to be standing the blackout strain of bumps and boredom fairly well. A. Hitler, an Austrian by birth who spent his youth in Vienna, cheered up the former Austrian capital by putting it back on a basis of bright lights and tuneful night life. The ban on dancing was lifted, Vienna cabarets sprang to life, the street lights were on and last week the Viennese, incorrigibly light-hearted and easygoing, even tore from their windowpanes the dark paper pasted on when the Führer ordered blackouts...
Thus in many ways the strain of warfare is more visible in neutral Italy than in warring France or Britain. Italians who used to drink from five to six cups of coffee daily have had to cut it out altogether. Gasoline is strictly rationed. The wartime one-meat-course meal has been ordered and instead of one voluntary meatless day a week (Friday), there are now two enforced ones (Thursday and Friday). Such luxuries as night clubs have been prohibited altogether...
...economic strain of war, even with abundant supplies available, was brought home to Britons last week by their war budget: income taxes up to 37½% (see p. 27). That kind of strain makes civilians impatient with the military. The impotent, halting performance of Britain's Ministry of Information nourished a growing suspicion that there was just hardly any good news to report. That, too, made the people impatient. They want to see action, to "get on with it." In this war's first 30 days, the only action Allied civilians saw was a creeping infantry advance...
...surgical success, hundreds of delicate precautions must be observed. A surgeon should make incisions with "a deliberate sweep of the scalpel." but "the belly of the scalpel should be swept across the tissues, not pressed into them." Sutures should be of silk "so fine that it - breaks when such strain is put upon it as will cut through living tissue. . . . One-handed knots and rapidly thrown knots are unreliable. Each knot is of vital importance in the success of an operation." Fresh wounds should be sealed with silver-foil, for "silver has bactericidal qualities." A surgeon must know the benefits...