Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only a hundred men could get a chance to strain their abdomens, Conditioner Clarke said. Immediately the plaintive cries rang out from the multitude, but all was well, "Go home," said Clarke, you'll get credit anyway. And so the awe-stricken students field out, unhealthy but happy...
Lest the college further strain its tradition, Haverford-with its Quaker neighbors, Swarthmore and Bryn Mawr-last week proposed another sort of contribution to the world outside. Before Director of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Herbert Lehman they placed a joint proposal chat they train a staff to help in the U.S. administration and relief of occupied countries...
Morals. The case for war games was perhaps best made, pacifistically, by H. G. Wells in his Little Wars: "How much better is this amiable miniature than the Real Thing! Here is the premeditation, the thrill, the strain of victory or disaster ... and no smashed or sanguinary bodies, no shattered buildings, no devastated countrysides Here is War down to rational proportions. . . . You have only to play at Little War three or four times to realize just what a blundering thing Great...
Chatty Columnist Elsa Maxwell's amiability crumpled under the strain of Columnist Westbrook Pegler, who, she found, "has taken up the cudgels in defense of women." Gritted Elsa: "Now, Mr. Pegler is a Freudian study ... too much protest is often an unconscious expression of too much love-and vice versa. If this ambivalence of emotion is true-as it seems to be-Westbrook is certainly madly in love with Mrs. Roosevelt. . . . But since Westbrook has turned his loving eye on women, watch out. The Pegler libido . . . turns hot & cold. . . . Personally, girls, I think we had better continue standing...
...minute conference which the two had at the White House on the afternoon of Mr. Willkie's return from his trip [helped create] the strain. There were few gentle words spoken during the interview. Mr. Roosevelt was effervescently cordial; Mr. Willkie was deadly serious and set out to tell the President what he considered the truth...