Word: strains
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...have shown you that there are fatal objections at the present to the issue of the entire volume of our paper currency by banks; that the legal tender system possesses the positive advantages of economy, and of relieving the strain upon the world's gold supply; and, lastly, that the central objection to this system is wholly without foundation...
...have been much exaggerated. The percentage of athletes injured in this way is small. Out of over 4000 men examined who were members of various Harvard teams not over one per cent were affected with the slightest cardiac trouble. It is in those events in which there are long strains and few intervals of rest that the heart is most strained, such as tugs-of war; but in football the heart has intervals of rest and the strain is not great...
...greatly reduces expense.- (a) It would reduce the strain upon our poorer students.- (b) It would enable many men to go to college who now can not afford...
...themselves. A very long race is at best not an exciting contest to watch. The pace is necessarily slow when compared even with the mile run, and before many laps are passed the race generally changes to a procession. Then a three mile race is altogether too great a strain to put upon college athletes, most of whom are under twenty-one years of age. There are probably few men in the University who are physically able to enter such a race without the danger of doing themselves serious harm...
...benefits of the increased amount of specie in circulation began to be felt everywhere, and France was greatly relieved from the strain...