Word: strainings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girl thus saved had suffered a very unfortunate career. In the earthquake-fire of 1923 her father, a manual laborer, became missing. Her mother had to care for eight children as a girl laborer. The strain was too great for her. The eldest daughter had to be sent to Tochigi Prefecture as a woman of ill fame. She had to become a geisha last year and in May last spring she had to serve on a 4-year contract for a loan on 1,500 yen. At that time only 1 yen remained in her mother's hands...
Cornell and Yale will be the chief rivals to Harvard in its try for the Eastern track and field title at Princeton's Palmer Stadium Saturday. In spite of the strain of divisionals most of the Crimson contestants have maintained or improved the good condition and form which characterized them in the Princeton meet last week...
...mental strain to which these individuals were subjected at such a crisis in their lives can be excused on the basis of the survival of the fittest. The thing which does give one pause, however, is to think that this example may be shaping these forty Juniors into sadists, just like the martinet of a proctor who ran Monday's show...
...Robert Julius Trumpler of California's Lick Observatory, who produced photographs taken during a solar eclipse showing stars near the sun's rim appar-ently displaced from their true position. The other statement was that light moving against a gravitational field should be "stretched" by the strain-i. e. suffer an increase of wavelength, which should displace spectrum lines toward the red (long wavelength) end. Thus, light winging away from a heavy star should show a definite redshift. Obstacle to confirmation was that another and unrelated spectrum shift existed (the Doppler effect), due to the motion...
...speeches which Mr. Douglas has given since he left office last summer, he has stressed the importance of formulating a program of legislation which does not strain the credit of the government. He has also been critical of the increasing role which the New Deal has taken in private industry...