Word: strains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Book. Man's Hope shows as irremovably as a birthmark the strain under which it was written. A big, fast-paced, sprawling, 511-page novel, divided into 58 episodes, it begins in Madrid, where arms are being distributed to militiamen, shifts to Barcelona, where a dwarf-like, sturdy little anarchist named Puig is leading 300 anarchists against Fascist troops. From a sequence of desperate, suicidal, lunging events, smoky with action, grisly with bloodshed, the leading characters emerge...
...short, I am to be, if we both can stand the strain necessary to adjustment, the "alter ego" of a human dynamo...
...investigate the relation of human encephalitis to equine encephalomyelitis, and last week, in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. LeRoy Dryden Fothergill and associates* announced that, for the first time, from a case of human encephalitis, they had isolated a virus which was identical with the eastern strain of equine encephalomyelitis virus. A few days later, in Science, Pathologists Leslie Tillotson Webster and F. Howell Wright of Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute confirmed the findings of the Boston physicians and described four similar cases...
...plane with two motors in one unit, geared with overrunning clutches to a single propeller. Overrunning clutches, similar in effect to a bicycle coaster brake or to the overdrive principle in some modern automobiles, permit a failing motor automatically to disengage itself, saving the still-functioning motor the strain of working against the inertia and compression of the dead...
...networks. But sponsors are also reluctant to buy time in opposition to a show which is a great national favorite. That again reduces the amount of premium time, keeps a keen edge on the competition for the prize hours even in depression years. It also tends to make advertisers strain to keep their hold on time that has served them well, and is one more stabilizing and recuperative factor in the radio business...