Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the care of Dr. Kempner, recommended to him by his old friend, author John Kieran, and on a strict diet of honey and rice, Harlow showed signs of improvement between the 1946 and 1947 football seasons; but the strain of tutoring the Crimson last fall set Harlow's health back farther than ever and let to Dr. Kempner's ultimatum...
From loudspeakers in Soviet homes, parks, and on street corners the deep, resonant voice of Radio Moscow's ace announcer, Yuri Levitan, boomed bad & good news. Soviet citizens grew taut with strain as they listened to Levitan read a state decree. When he finished they erupted with grief or joy depending on the number of rubles each had hoarded under his mattress. The decree abolished: 1) 90% of all unbanked individual savings; 2) rationing of food and clothing...
...rooter plow" that lifted up a strip of land, killed the mesquite roots and dropped it back with the grass undisturbed. He then turned his hand to grass. Bob's father had brought in South African Rhodes grass. Bob took seed from the best plants, and perfected the strain. Later he developed a fine strain of yellow-beard grass. As one cattleman put it: "Bob developed a breed of cattle to grow fat on grass, then developed the grass to make them...
Horseplay. With the same sure breeding hand, Bob went to work on the ranch's cow ponies. There were both thoroughbreds and mustangs with-legend has it-a strain of blood from one of Jesse James's fastest horses. The story goes that James stopped at the ranch one day and found his horse so much admired that he gave it to the ranch...
Revised testimony of friends of the deceased, as well as her physician, Dr. James H. Townsend, indicated that Miss Flint had been under treatment for a hyper-nervous condition several weeks before her death, and had manifested considerable strain and anxiety...