Word: strainings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dana had been managing editor of the potent Tribune under Horace Greeley but had resigned because of repeated differences. For Dana, the country boy who had clerked in a Buffalo store, gone to Harvard for three years until eye-strain forced him out, ownership of the Sun was a third career. (His second had been an Assistant Secretary of War.) Traveled, informed, scholarly, artistic, he gave the Sun his own peculiar tart philosophy. To people who objected to the things he printed, Dana retorted: "I have always felt that whatever the divine Providence permitted to occur...
...roared a sergeant, and up the hill went the cannon while the soldiers cheered. Later in the day, still full of energy. Il Duce took his place in the line again with chin up and swinging arms, pacing a battalion of the 67th Infantry in a route march to strain the legs of the shortest...
Last week, at the end of the first inning of a Yankee game with the St. Louis Browns, the players of both teams crowded around home plate while the editor of The Sporting News presented Gehrig with a silver statue inscribed with his record. Said Gehrig, showing signs of strain and fatigue: "It looks as though Miller Huggins gave me rather steady employment at that." Going back to work, the Yankees played like champions for an inning or two, then lost the game, 7-6, despite Babe Ruth's 27th home run of the season. Gehrig made two hits...
Professor Johnson was instrumental in the construction of the Stadium on Soldiers Field and determined the kind and strength of iron and concrete necessary for a margin of safety. To test the strain which a crowd of enthusiastic football spectators would put it to, he had the entire varsity squad jump up and down on some trial benches...
...before adjournment when the pension fight was at its hottest & heaviest in the Senate, Virginia's peppery little Carter Glass, his nerves rubbed raw with the strain of the session, uprose to flay greedy veterans. From the corner of his mouth he snarled...