Word: strainings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discussing the second purpose and the need for large awards, Mr. Hanford feels that some scholarships should be awarded on a continuing basis so that a student of very high standing will possess "a certain sense of security and will be removed from the necessity of pressure and strain of always centering his attention on high grades for fear that someone else will get one more A or B and thus endanger his own chance of being awarded a scholarship in the following year...
Because of the terrific physical strain involved, Pilot Breese had himself taped from head to foot before going up. At 20,000 ft. he leveled off, nosed his ship straight down at full throttle. He was making 425 m.p.h. when his air-speed indicator broke. He kept on diving, pulled his plane out successfully...
Shirin (pronounced "Sheereen") was the child of a respectable middle-class home in a London suburb. From her blind and henpecked father she had inherited a secret strain that lifted her beyond her shoddy environment, made her seem like a changeling. On the annual family outing to the seaside, Shirin worshipped from afar the grim islet of Storn, was content never to have a closer view. But when Venn, Storn's spoiled young heir, rowed her over one day and presented her to his grandmother, she fell in love with the place. Years later, after a tragic but successful...
...least three times a week. Indeed, no consideration what soover is given to the man whose financial straits force him to do physical work either in the Union or in some office or store. If he complies, with the existing regulation, sheer exhaustion inhibits effective study, and excessive physical strain undermines his general health. On the other hand, if he fails to exercise regularly, he is automatically put on probation at the end of his Sophomore year. Wearied by the combination of physical work and athletic activity, he is in no position to enjoy the intellectual and social advantages offered...
Onetime light heavyweight champion of the R. A. F., he was visibly suffering from the terrific strain of his flight. Eight hours after Scott's departure, Parmentier reached Singapore. Said that doughty Dutchman: "I'm in a great hurry." Back at Karachi the Mollisons got off a third time, had engine trouble all the way to Allahabad, were grounded there with a broken oil line. Hopelessly behind in the race was Captain Stack with the newsreel of the start at Mildenhall. Grounded at Marseille, harassed by motor trouble, he announced he would continue as an "amateur...