Word: strains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crestfallen were two other huntsmen when the Forest rangers pronounced their scrawny trophies of the day to be merely wild hogs, with little if any boar strain in them. Real boars were credited next day to a Tennessee housewife, a Chattanooga grocer. When the footsore hunters went home from the hills at the end of their third & last day, rangers revealed to reporters that not one of the six animals bagged was of the true wild Russian stock. This week, however, in a new batch of huntsmen, two Knoxvillites named Carey House and Hugh Vandeventer killed an authentic Russian...
...morning brushing up on their studies, the afternoon exhibiting their wares to the coach. Those who showed up well in both tests would be offered $400 scholarships paid by alumni subscription, renewable on good behavior. In that way, thought Historian Reynolds, Wisconsin could get athletes able to stand the strain of classroom work later...
Convinced that telegrams were adapt able to all social nuances, Mr. Willever first created special holly-leaved blanks for Christmas messages in 1914. He next observed that the mental strain involved in composing social telegrams plunged many a pencil-chewing patron into despondency. So Mr. Willever encouraged managers in branch offices to keep scrapbooks of sentiments they thought were neatly turned. From these collections Mr. Willever culled and issued in 1915 a grey booklet of "suggestions" for Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, Birthday, Wedding, Birth, Death, Congratulation messages...
...sincerely hope you won't strain too many muscles patting yourselves on the back in the new half-hour-a-week "March of Time" program...
Although Author Hurst does not make the point, readers may feel that Gregrannie must have exercised considerable mental agility merely to keep straight in her mind the large family in St. Luke's Place, Manhattan, over which she rules. It is a task likely to strain the patience of readers not half her years. For Gregrannie's daughter, Linda, has borne ten children at the beginning of Great Laughter, and these, with their wives and offspring, make up the cast of the book. One dies, leaving a widow, Carmella, who is beloved by two of the brothers...