Word: strains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the belligerent vow always to tell his wife the truth. When he kisses his secretary, he tells his wife that the secretary sneaked up on him. He admits looking at other women's legs, but turns his confession into a diatribe on their immodesty. Souring under the strain, he declares the world is going to the dogs, picks fights with his wife, winds up in an asylum...
...Union there are periods during each meal when the student waiters, waitresses, and kitchen are rushed by the horde of Freshmen which pours into and crowds every table and chair. These times are the rush hour at breakfast, luncheon, and dinner. They not only strain the speed of the service to the utmost, but also place its accuracy and good-naturedness at a premium. No waitress nor student waiter can be expected to remember all the fine points of the individual orders of eight, twelve, or sixteen men. Nor, under the pressure, can any one expect that...
Four days after the bombing of Formosa, Associated Press flashed from Hankow, where Chinese Government censors handle every dispatch, the news that Secretary General of Aviation, Mme Chiang, "is authoritatively understood to be relinquishing the position. The strain of war-time duties is generally known to have taxed her health and this probably will be given as the reason for her resignation in the near future." Actually during the past month Mme Chiang has been diving quietly in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, leaving the active command of what she always called "my airforce" to others...
...expected that Willy Kendall will coast to an easy furlong victory, as will Don Barker in the 50. Hutter shouldn't have to strain himself in the 100. However, just what the 400-yard free-style relay team will do remains the usual mystery. While the boys will probably be saving themselves for Princeton, they may, on the other hand, feel just like smashing out four breath-takingly fast 100's. Whether they do or not, the boys are certain than any phenomenal times they swim against Navy will impress the Tigers no end before Saturday's meet...
...longer will elementary biology students have to strain their eyes trying to bring an amoeba into the field of their microscope, because the University has a supply of amoeba, recently found, 50 to 500 times the size of the ordinary kind...