Word: strainings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called to the fact that it is an arduous task to carry four regular graduate courses in addition to preparing a thesis without the additional burden of grounding one's self in one or two foreign languages. There may be individuals who are capable of withstanding this tremendous strain, but for the average man it means either failure to receive the A.M. degree or a second year of graduate work...
Although he has permission to absent himself from the trial if the strain be comes too much for his health, old Samuel Insull taxied or bussed over from the Hotel Seneca to the courthouse every morning before ten. He submitted grace fully to daily photographing and interviewing, nodded to friends in court. Said his old protegee, Singer Mary McCormic, from the spectators' benches: "This looks like comic opera to me." Far from comic to old Insull, however, is the Government's threat: a maximum sentence of 50 years in jail and $250,000 fine. If acquitted, he will be tried...
...Will strain his brow...
...fact that he is a Jew makes him weak in upstate New York and the fact he is not orthodox damages him with the synagogues. But at least the G.O.P. led by Moses promises to show new life and in its probable defeat to release itself from the strain of social teas in the country...
...slim but effective majorities. By crushing the "Old Regulars," which had not lost a New Orleans election in 50 years, Senator Long revenged the organization's break with him last year, its defeat of his candidate for mayor in January. Ordered to bed by his physician after the strain of the primary, Senator Long planned to proceed by having the Legislature oust Mayor Walmsley, who he said will be taking "an early trip to China...