Word: strains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nervous and physical strain of a 200,000 circulation first edition over, Photo-Facts Editor Delano found himself in a hospital last week. There he can read in Editor Lurton's Your Life: "The high-strung worrier can actually fret himself into serious organic diseases such as stomach ulcers...
...peculiar gifts, he had turned from the deeper study of the human tragedy to revel in the mere shock and suddenness of wanton killing. War was already too much in the air to make such an attitude agreeable. It was a time too of increasing political and economic strain, when the pressure was great, both from the Right and the Left, on every writer to stand and declare himself. Since he stubbornly refused to do so, the consensus* was that Author Hemingway was rapidly becoming as dead as his subject matter...
...nature of Leggett's illness is unknown, but it is suspected that it was brought about by the strain of his fiery defense of the genuineness of the hand's six-foot bass drum. In completely denying the assertion in the current issue of the New Yorker, he declared the drum to be in A No. 1 condition. Evidently he was not speaking for himself at the same time...
After midday one cannot read without strain in either the east wing or the center hall of the room. The daylight is too weak and electric lights are ineffective. In the early morning and late afternoon the same weak light is noticeable in the west wing...
...Duvel cracked back with a stinging rebuke : "Every time there is a price rise or fall, there is an outcry from those who lose money." Two days later, however, having already tripled margins and taken the unusual step of ordering traders to reveal their market positions without easing the strain, the Chicago Board of Trade suspended trading in September corn, ordered all deals settled at a price of $1.10½ a bu. It was the first time since 1918 that such emergency action had been necessary to halt a corn squeeze...