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Word: strains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Latest reports from Soldiers Field indicate that a muscle strain will probably keep Dean out of the lineup Saturday when Coach Casey's men face the cadets in the Stadium. For the first time this season no official lineup will be given out before Friday afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEAN IS PROBABLY OUT OF ARMY GAME | 11/3/1932 | See Source »

...always been shy of publicity. But many a success writer has written of their rise from newspaper selling with pooled assets of $16.32 to a position where they control 29,704 miles of track with Cleveland's new Union Terminal as their monument. The Depression has brought a severe strain on the holding companies which bind their empire and there has been many a rumor that they have lost control. Once, when such reports were at their height, Brother Mantis was off duckshooting and Brother Oris was calmly addressing New England Governors on the way he would like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Rail Week | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

...intelligent publicist, he had arranged for a radio broadcast of his descent. A telephone line ran between the bathysphere and the tug Freedom. So the world heard a description which, while less Shelleyesque than Professor Piccard's stratospheric exuberances (TIME, Aug. 29), ran in the same strain of ecstasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Low Ball | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

Nevertheless, the inability of the upperclassman to eat, and pay for his own meal, in another House than his own will be as inconvenient during the coming year as it has been in the past. The argument that relaxing the ban would cause a severe strain on the dining rooms of some of the House to the neglect of others is beside the point, since, as the CRIMSON pointed out last year, it would be quite possible to limit the number of meals which a guest could sign for. The increase in the cost of bookkeeping would be so slight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTER-HOUSE EATING | 9/27/1932 | See Source »

Throughout the land at colleges opening or about to open, similar scenes occurred last week. Boys and girls without money sat down with officials whose earnest wish was somehow to finance the spread of culture in a time of shrunken credit. It was a realistically strained fortnight in a world where strain is usually academic to the adults and exaggerated to the young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: College at a Corner | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

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