Word: strainings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...muddled students, has Dr. Arthur Hiler Ruggles as consultant in mental hygiene. Dr. Ruggles, pursuing investigations approved by Yale's President James Rowland Angell, reported that college men and women who need mental treatment need it chiefly because: 1) the competitive side of the educational program puts a strain on the student; 2) adjustment is necessary when the student changes from a small school where he was the leader to a large university where he becomes lost; 3) anxiety states arise from a divided home or financial insecurity; 4) depression comes with "certain of the adolescent physiological changes...
...wife of an Indian Maharajah is taken for a ride. With an Englishman disguised as an Indian chauffeur at the wheel, the car sped to Yeroda jail in Poona. There officials did all in their power to make St. Gandhi comfortable, showed reporters a dozen woolly animals of purest strain, purchased by His Majesty's Government to supply the prisoner with his favorite beverage: goat's milk...
...Jesus. Anton Lang, a potter, played the part in 1900, 1910, 1922. Now 55, he was considered too old to play it again by the 21 electors chosen by all Oberammergau to determine the cast. Says he: "You do not know what a great physical strain it is to hang on the cross for a half-hour." Instead of risking heart failure in this fashion, Anton Lang will read the prologs to the 18 acts and 25 tableaux, a duty customarily undertaken by those who have played the Christ...
...maneuvers used to fly at a safe altitude directly over their target, "lay their eggs," hope for a hit. Rarely were they rewarded. Newer strategy is to dive upon the enemy battleship, release the bombs, pull up sharply?the bomb continuing the path of the dive. Under this terrific strain, wings of an ordinary airplane would crumple like paper...
This spring and summer many a horse will feel the sharp thrust of a hypodermic needle; will be injected with meningitis bacilli. Thus horses will help in the development of a serum to fight a new strain of cerebrospinal meningitis which, originating among Chinese workers in California last year, is moving eastward across the country...