Word: strains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just now that rate of armament is so high that Japan will have to strain hard not to lose ground. In fiscal 1939 Great Britain is spending $302,500,000 on new construction, the U. S. $211,113,000, Japan $16,420,950. Even allowing for the amount Japan saves on cheap labor and building costs, her present program is far from "equal to the strongest." Neither Britain nor the U. S. has planned six years ahead, but all indications are that at the end of that time their relative strength to Japan will be just about what...
Most of the diseases come not from poor health but from the nervous strain of modern living, he remarked...
...invention of machinery, which it may have eased the strain on the body, has placed much more on the mind of modern man who has to struggle to keep up with his radio, his newspaper, and his airplane...
...individuals are concerned, Dr. Bock advised students to exercise more in order to take the strain off their nerves and mind...
...Logan Clendening (Modern Methods of Treatment, The Human Body, The Care & Feeding of Adults). Few of his readers know that Dr. Clendening lives in a residential section of Kansas City, Mo. (near Boss Tom Pendergast) and that ever since last October he has been subjected to a severe strain. Last week Dr. Clendening cracked under the strain, committed a savage infraction...