Word: strainings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual show of the Pekingese Club of America the little dogs which peered out from wicker or glass cases strikingly resembled their fabled ancestors. There were the tawny coats, the pendulous ears, the wide chest and narrow hips of the lion. No imagination strain was needed to detect a simian likeness in their bright, popping eyes and bashed-in noses...
TIME promotes no cause. Arguments pro a single, lengthened term for U. S. President: no administration straddling with an eye to next Election Day; no undignified campaigning for a second term; less anxiety strain on the President's health; less need for hypocrisy; less control of the President by the Party; more freedom of presidential leadership; more time to carry out a program; more prestige; Party freedom from the tradition of renominating its President, etc. Arguments con: hypothetical need for a second term in time of national emergency (war, depression); increased irresponsibility of the President to the people...
...medium of amusement. Amusement, as in the case of a poker game, often falls very, very, far short of art, and yet is, as amusement, very, very, good pastime for the reading period. As for the art the cinema turns out a fair proportion of it, considering what a strain it must be on the intellects of the movie magnates...
...pipe wound in the right hand, not a broken collar bone. He did not say, when offered a drink, "Sir, I am a Prohibitionist, dead or alive" but, thinking clearly under stress as consulting engineers must, and considering that his heart had just been through a terrific strain he replied: "Thanks, but I'd rather have some water." A nondrinker, yet without scruples on the point aside from the question of health, and open-minded to the point of anti-Prohibition contributions, he was incorrectly quoted throughout the New England press...
...bitch in Europe, breeds her there, takes her home before her time (63 days). "After Feb. 7, ruled the Club, both mating and whelping must take place in the U. S. Hoped for is a greater use of U. S. sires, the development of a truly U. S. strain in breeds now chiefly foreign-blooded...