Word: strainings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from a course in New York In firmary's Women's Medical College and a year of graduate study abroad, Dr. Williams joined the city's laboratory staff in 1895. One year later she made her first important contribution to preventive medicine - the discovery of a strain of diphtheria bacillus which produced an extremely virulent toxin. It made possible mass production of the anti-diphtheria serum which has nearly banished that dis ease from the world. Dog-bite victims once had to wait ten awful days to know if they had contracted rabies. In 1904, Dr. Williams...
...true that you were suffering from a nervous strain so that you hardly knew what you were doing...
...snarled, "Mr. Hurley has been an elected officer of the Common-wealth for the past four years. He never offered charges he could not substantiate. He left town, not because he was a hit and run driver, but because he was ordered away (much laughter) to recover from the strain of three months delving into the frightful conditions of Norfolk, Prison." (Long laughter from the crowd, much clapping and booing...
...gold flow put an immense strain on U. S. Assay offices as importers, eager for profit, dumped hoards of foreign gold upon them. Chief receiving office was the chaste granite building which stands on the Manhattan waterfront looking across the East River to Brooklyn. There weighers and assayers fell four and five days behind in their work of testing, weighing, melting gold into ingots 7 in. by 3½ in. by 1⅜-in., each weighing 35 lb., worth $14,700. Because of the delays in the Assay office the newly arrived gold did not appear on Treasury statements until...
...refusal of the University to comply with the conditions made by the Civil Works Administration may seem, at first glance, ungracious and arbitrary. There is, of course, a strong presumption in favor of any plan to assist students at a time when their budgetary strain is more acute than ever before, but this should not prevent an understanding of the University's decision, and of the considerations by which it was dictated...