Word: strains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sufferings and defeats. At least one could get a decent meal and still work in Widener--they had no stopped that yet. And after all, he was imprisoned voluntarily--no one compelled him to come to Harvard in the first place or to slave and moil and toil and strain his eyes in a library hemmed in by windows plated with steel. He had sentenced himself to this incarceration...
...Franco should win now it will in all probability be due to these factors. But if the food situation can be improved and the civil population can hold out under the strain, Franco's prospects may have definitely faded by the summer. Even so, the disappearance of Franco's hopes of victory would not necessarily mean the restoration of the Government's supremacy throughout Spain. Thus, if the Government can maintain its own food supplies, the most probable outcome would seem to be that the war may peter out with Spain divided into two parts more...
Physicians and coaches are currently concerned lest the point-a-minute basketball resulting from elimination of the centre jump (TIME, Jan. 24) become too great a strain on players' hearts. Last week in New Orleans, a game between Loyola and Centenary was tied 35-10-35 at the end of the first half, 67-10-67 at the end of the second. Centenary finally won 78-10-72, after a five-minute extra period. The score was tied 17 times, the lead seesawed 26 times. The players got along all right, but two spectators fainted from excitement...
...Contrary to common belief, the frozen wastes were not silent and inert. Submerged ice floes smashed steadily against the hull of the Jeannette. The pressure on her timbers made the ship crack with a sound like repeated rifle shots, and at times the sides seemed to pant under the strain. The ice itself seemed alive. Once a section near the Jeannette churned as if in a millrace, and sometimes ice fragments as large as houses piled up, threatening to crash down on the ship...
...Edwards, head of the Psychological Department which is conducting a 100 hour "no sleep" test to determine the effect on mind and body, said only the eyes of the subjects have shown any noticeable strain...