Word: strains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hole playoff. When Burke and Von Elm came to the 36th hole the next day, Burke needed a four for a 149; Von Elm, a stroke behind, needed a three. Confident in the assumption that miracles?and a birdie on a tricky 325-yard last hole in the strain of an Open can be described as a miracle?never happen twice. Burke drove well, put his approach 30 feet from the pin, his approach putt three feet from the cup. Von Elm's pitch shot was twelve feet from cup. He studied the green, tapped the ball with...
Died. Dr. Eugene Lyman Fisk, 64, medical director of the Life Extension Institute, initiator of periodical medical examiners ; of apoplexy caused by prolonged strain; at Dresden, Germany...
...scrubwoman's work and such. He was apprenticed to a jeweler, graduated as an engraver of medals. By the time he was 21, Engraver Doumer had studied enough nights to be graduated at the University of Paris, became Professor Doumer of mathematics. His throat would not stand the strain of lecturing, and he became Editor Doumer of the journal Voltaire. Meanwhile he had married "for love," his wife bringing no dot. But poor Husband Doumer managed to do everyone proud by becoming private secretary to Charles Floquet, Speaker of the Chamber and later Prime Minister. In 1888 Deputy Doumer...
...difficult to reconcile with the kindly consideration which he always displayed toward his personal friends. Over them he exercised an almost magical spell, and there were few who knew him well who did not love him. His manner in private life was smoothly, charming, and his nature had a strain of sentimentality which seemed utterly foreign to the stern manner of the great business...
...Spanish Royalists be- fore the Biarritz express pulled into the Gare d'Orléans. Queen Victoria Eugenie wept again at the unexpected welcome. Nine months ago the Prince of the Asturias, heir to the throne, arrived jauntily in Paris, apparently entirely cured of his haemophilia (easy bleeding) but the strain of the past fortnight was too much for him. White-jacketed attendants carried him from the train on a stretcher...