Word: strains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Driving Russia further & further toward Communism,- Josef Stalin's Communist Party advances by a series of zigzags, first zigging as far to the Left as the people will stand, then zagging a trifle to the Right, easing the strain. Came last week a major zag. Dictator Stalin and Premier Molotov signed a sheaf of decrees conferring on Soviet peasants for the remainder of 1932 these boons...
...considerable part of the laboratory will be devoted to the study of the effect of stress on variously shaped solid bodies with the aid of polarized light and sensitive cameras. The distribution of stress and strain exerted on a notched object, for example, can be detected by bands of colored light which are recorded on the photographic plate in the camera. The English scientist, Coker, developed the process early in the last decade, but its practical engineering value is just beginning to be realized...
Earl Sande, most famed jockey in the U. S., his cheerful little face pinched by the strain of making weight, had won three Derbies and wanted another to break the record. He was wearing Mrs. "Jock" Whitney's fuchsia silks, as was Lavelle ("Buddy") Ensor, whom she had chosen to ride Stepenfetchit. Ten years ago, when he was regarded as the best rider in the country, Ensor's conviviality grew so pronounced that no trainer dared trust him with a mount. This year, reformed at 34, his comeback has been even more dramatic than Sande...
...ought to. I've been wearing them for six months. I'm used to everything except the physical strain. Standing for five hours is gruelling. The tension is so great, that the work is just as hard as running a marathon. In New York after two months I got the 'jitters.' I could scarcely control my hands. Never again--that is, not for a long time will I take a play as long as this...
Disappointed in men, Lucy gives all her love to God. As an aged novice in a Belgian monastery she forces herself to put up with disciplinary mortifications for her new love's sake. But her already wearied body cannot stand the strain. Sick, she is sent back to England. When her son. through no fault of his own, fails to meet her train, she waits for him on the station platform until she falls. After a brief agony in a hospital, Death pays her wages in full. Beginning, as in Hatter's Castle, with a cloud no bigger than...