Word: strainings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This statement is grossly inaccurate. The F4, a vessel of about 280 tons, was lifted by sweeping cables under her while she lay in 304 ft. of water, and then, taking a strain on the cables, dragging her along the bottom till she had been dragged into about a depth of 48 ft. only, without even in this stage lifting her off the bottom. At a depth of about 48 ft. of water, being then practically inside the harbor, the dragging process went to smash, and to complete the job, the salvage officer built six pontoons which were used only...
...attested by a frantic creation of positions, some genuinely useful and reasonable, some incredibly fatuous and wasteful. But this has been insufficient--and now the necessity for a more fundamental attack upon the problem has become apparent. To insure themselves financial security and to prevent unnecessary discouragement and strain to the impecunious, the colleges must squarely set themselves to investigate the ability of applicants to meet the necessary expenses of their support. Those who will obviously require more assistance than the college can provide should not be permitted to swell the queues at the doors of harassed employment offices, merely...
...Charles M. Schwab, once a tedious exponent of the view that depression was all in the eye of the beholder, began in 1931 to mourn that there were no rich men any more, and has just abandoned this strain to move one inch closer to the bathos in which his oracle is suspended. Now, we are told, the people has passed through its crucible, and is prepared for the higher things which someone, perhaps Mr. Schwab, delayed until it could appreciate them. One almost expects that Mr. Schwab will wink indulgently and produce a cornucopia from under his coattails, unless...
Charles Verschuuren's panel, America Revive! Loinclothed U. S. business executives strain at the wheels of an engine while a figure resembling Actress...
...third-degree methods, day-long cross-examinations, and attempts to bribe Russians who were to pass on the work done by the Vickers Company. The embassy vehemently declares that the confessions signed by two of the British suspects were wrung out of them only after Mediaeval tortures and the strain of continuous questioning. In reply the Soviets have, of course, denied these allegations and reasserted that the men will be brought to public trial to answer the official charges...