Word: strains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hysteria. He well knew that a lesion in the brain or a lesion in the abdomen could produce the same kind of false laughter. Upon examining Teresa Hawkins, Dr. Offner found that an appendectomy had resulted in abdominal adhesions. These affected both her diaphragm and womb, put a strain upon her constitution which she withstood until her shorthand studies exhausted her. Then she lost all emotional control. Soon as Dr. Offner performed a second laparotomy and freed diaphragm and womb from their unnatural bindings, Teresa Hawkins ceased her nine days laughing...
...unable to stand the strain much longer!" wailed the haggard plutocrat. "I have had three cables from the United States one of which suggested a lettuce diet. I have had more than 1,000 letters from the United States, England, Ireland and Scotland. Many noble women have written me saying that they are only sympathetic and interested in getting me to sleep and care nothing...
Rumor of the resignation started last November when attention was called to the fact that the Maestro, nearing 69, had come to find the voyage from Italy tiresome, the routine run of concerts and rehearsals an ever-increasing strain. He will end his U. S. career on April 26, conduct occasionally thereafter, but only in Europe on special occasions...
Seldom has a prodigy been so unscrupulously exploited. After his amazing debut, Hofmann was booked for 80 concerts, played 52 before his health broke under the strain. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children intervened. The late Alfred Corning Clarke, wealthy Manhattan realtor, donated $50.000 so that the boy could go home to Poland, study in peace. Luck came on a visit to Berlin where young Hofmann played for Anton Rubinstein, became the master's only pupil...
...period of practice should in the interests of health be lengthened by an earlier opening in September seems to give the university two alternatives with regard to this question. Either this extension, with its resulting emphasis upon football, must be adopted in the hope of averting injuries, or the strain upon the athletes must be relieved by a reduction in the number of games...