Word: strainings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...headed by Aloysius Burton Banks, 62, Arkansas booster reputed to be worth $5,000,000. He is also a big factor in the insurance field. He lives in Little Rock in modest luxury, takes long walks at dusk, alone. Last week genial Mr. Banks took few walks, showed the strain of long conferences. He hoped that eventually his chain could be rewelded...
...biochemistry of respiration and the physiology of circulation, indicated the way, doctors have been giving their failing pneumonia patients extra oxygen to breathe. Enough oxygen then can get through the plugged air spaces at each gasp to sustain the dying patient for two, three minutes. Consequently he need not strain to breathe at the normal rate (16 to 20 times a minute...
...Sanger strain is not strong in Caryl it is nonetheless there. He has its troubled spirit if he has not its fire. Gemma, the little hoyden that Sebastian has picked up and lives with contentedly and illegally, knows it is there before the others do. She provoked it one afternoon in the Dolomites. Gemma knows, too, that Caryl's solidness is a much-needed compensation to Sebastian's brilliance. When Sebastian goes off to Paris to conduct the opening of his first ballet, he leaves Gemma in an ecstasy of fear for her sick baby and of anger...
...Sanger strain in Caryl becomes completely apparent to Sebastian on his return from Paris when Caryl, told by Gemma of Sebastian's relations with Fenella, kicks him downstairs. Sebastian promptly calls Fenella and runs away with her. But this time Caryl profits. Like most things brilliant, Sebastian's charms are not particularly adaptable. When Caryl, bent on delivering a message to Sebastian and resigned to the loss of Fenella, finds them together, he discovers that all is not harmony between them, that Sebastian is thinking of Gemma, Fenella thinking of Caryl. After that Caryl takes Fenella away. Sebastian...
...Kehr Jr., 6, standing 4 ft. I in., weighing 87 lb., was barred from both public and Catholic schools because he has a bass voice, smokes, has to shave, is as strong as a grown man. He can lift persons bulking 250 lb., 200-lb. dumbbells, can push without strain a lawn roller, or an automobile filled with passengers. Prime stunt: lifting Jack Dempsey when Dempsey scaled 202 lb. Born normal, Clarence Jr. continued so until 9 mos. old. Between 9 mos. and 3½ years he grew ten years physically in all things except height. When...