Word: strainings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From the papyrus roots of Lake Victoria Joel two years prior had collected specimens of the fish, called Kamongo by the blacks. Now he is taking more of them, packed in mud, back to America, to study further how their kidneys and other organs stand such a record-breaking strain...
...control of his game, for a brilliant run of 69, before Poensgen had the match 400 to 206. Poensgen was still undefeated when he played Soussa. The Egyptian, by losing another match to Van Belle, had lost his chance for the championship and was therefore not playing under a strain. It was an important match for Poensgen ; by losing, he would place himself in a tie with Van Belle for first place. Soussa, who had already made the high run - 181 - of the tournament, played the best billiards of the week. He gathered the balls at the rail...
...lonely New Jersey home of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, had died down last week. Two weeks of March had run out. But still the curly-headed baby for whom all police and all good citizens of the nation were on anxious lookout, was a lost child. The strain told on the bereaved mother, soon to become a mother again. Physicians attended her, but still she was seen with her mother and sister going about her robbed house, managing, helping, hoping. At Hopewell, where the Press kept constant contact with the State police, new factual developments were only a thin trickle...
...Swedish Match King," the self-made colossus of Scandinavian finance. Matchman Kreuger was putting a bullet into his heart for business reasons (see p. 45) and for human reasons. His nerves were drawn so taut (he had suffered a nervous breakdown recently in New York) that to release the strain was welcome, sweet. His physician had warned him the day before that his heart would not stand much more. "M. Kreuger is sleeping," said the concierge of the apartment about 1:30 p.m. when Vice President Krister Littorin of Swedish Match, who had expected to lunch with his chief...
...last week no improvement in business for 1932 was evident. Much hope was felt throughout the land that easing the banking strain and prompt Ford production might prove to be stim- ulants...