Word: strainings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such paternalistic measures as having the headmaster choose his courses for him will never permanently ease the strain on the student of low intelligence sufficiently to assure him an easy and enjoyable passage through the university, and sooner or later educators will realize that under existing conditions college is fast becoming the privilege of the gifted few and that no matter how-strong his character or his will power the less scholarly student is out of place there...
...Shamrock gained but only because Skipper Vanderbilt was taking no chances with his yacht's gear. He was near home on the third leg before he set his spinaker and big balloon jib topsail. Never had the duralumin mast, the winches for every sail, the devices for measuring the strain on the stays proved their efficiency more clearly. Enterprise had swept the series, 4 to 0, winning this final race by more than five minutes...
...more conscientious." Professor William Heckler, owner of Manhattan's largest flea-circus, disagrees with Jean Rochet. Professor Heckler uses mostly females in his acts. He finds that the male flea, which is much smaller than the female, cannot go without food for long, breaks down under the strain of heavy work, is too highly strung for circus life. Of the 500 flea species known, the human flea (Pulex irritans) is the only kind used in trained flea performances. Fleamen feed their healthy performers once a day, by simply rolling up their sleeves (usually the left one).* Sickly pets...
...moles lived underground, ate earthworms, lacked normal vitamins? He raised some mice on diets lacking certain vitamins and infected them with leprosy. Like the moles, but unlike the normal mice they broke out with the nauseating stigmata of leprosy. Here then was excellent proof that he had a virulent strain of the germ, which under special conditions might be prepared as a vaccine...
...years ago, zoologists imported American bison cows, bred them with aurochs bulls. The hybrid offspring are to be bred in turn with full-blood aurochs, giving three-quarter blood animals. Through successive generations the temporary American bison strain could be practically bred out, its virility merely tiding over the true Europeans. Like American bison, the aurochs has long legs, massive shoulders covered in winter with shaggy dark-brown hair, convex forehead. Both species make fine rugs, steaks...