Word: strainings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Power dives involve terrific physical strain, frequently cause ruptured intestines, broken blood vessels in the brain. To protect themselves during the "pullout." some pilots wear a wide leather belt, others tense the muscles of the abdomen and neck by shouting...
Unfortunately, Dr. Means gives rotten performances. If any of his patients feel ill, he stops to make a personal examination and even prescribes a remedy. Thus he inevitably loses to Dr. Hathaway, who can interpret symptoms by intuition as his legs strain for the tape. The latter also knows that the best way to answer difficult questions is to disappear immediately into the main building where he can have his rubdown, free from inquisitive measle victims. It really is a tragedy that he is ineligible for Eddie Farrell's team...
When a man enters a ward, he might just as well retire to a monastery. For a week he is dead to his friends; they and the outside world dead to him. Of course if he wants to strain his finger on a damnable little black button, he can talk to a friend brave enough to take the mile jaunt up Mount Auburn Street on a treacherous trolley...
...philharmonics, orchestras, radio dramas, and the like are forced off the other; but carpers must remember that a greater good will be served. Who knows, the nation may laugh itself out of the depression, despite a few fatalities among the more weakly constituted who are unable to stand the strain of an eight-hour laughing jag each...
...Deal were, from an economic point of view, no smashing success. NRA, AAA, $4,000,000,000 a year in emergency expenditures, dollar devaluation, all had been tried but some 5,000,000 families still remained on relief. The Government's financial credit could not stand such a strain indefinitely. Nor could the Administration's political credit. A new economic order might be set up by a five-year or a ten-year plan, but certainly not by an 18-month plan. And the campaign of 1936 is not more than 18 months ahead. If there...