Word: strainings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wiesbaden in the early evening the 82-year-old Field-Marshal showed his only sign of strain. He excused himself from watching hundreds of schoolchildren enact the jubilation of the Elbe, the Voder, the Danube and several other German rivers at the liberation of "Their Sister, the Rhine...
What neither owners nor selection committee can yet be sure of is how well the new type mainsails, hung so that most of the wind-strain falls in the peak, will endure in the September wind of the actual races. In one race last week Whirlwind and Enterprise had their sails ripped out in a breeze that was just good racing weather...
Most medal tournaments are won in the third round, for the field is apt to be fairly even up to that time and a decisively brilliant score then adds mightily to the strain on other competitors in the final round. Jones especially has depended on his third rounds. His third-round average in U. S. Opens is 73?a half-stroke less than his second-round average, a stroke less than his first-round average, three strokes less than his fourth-round average. That third morning at Interlachen was a little cooler. Jones started by sinking a ten-foot putt...
...Effective in 1931, parents of Vassar girls will pay $1,200 a year for their daughters' tuition and living expenses at Poughkeepsie, an increase of $200. Town girls will be charged a tuition fee of $500. Trustees explained that the college's additional income will relieve "the strain on overburdened endowments," "pay better salaries to teachers, maintain the institution's physical property. In justification of their move, the Trustees pointed out that Vassar's clientele had suffered nothing from the last tuition increase (1925). They cited the words of Founder Matthew Vassar...
Died. Leroy A. Manchester, chief counsel (with Newton Diehl Baker) for Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. in the projected Youngstown-Bethlehem steel merger ; despondent over litigation against the merger (TIME, March 24 et seq.) and the strain of negotiations; by his own hand; at Youngstown, Ohio. Court was declared adjourned until July 8 "for good and sufficient reasons." Declared David G. Jenkins, trial judge: "A valuable piece in the chess game [has been] removed from the board. So far as the law suit is concerned and cold as it may seem to say it, the contest must...