Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smith resumed training last week, but did not have time to get in shape for the Heptagonal. Coach Mikkola kept him out for the added reason that he did not wish him to risk a strain. The last pull would have surely have eliminated him from the all-important Yale meet this week...
Nach Paris. At 5 a.m. next morning a drowsy-voiced night operator summoned the press to a 6 o'clock conference. Not until 8:25 did Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop come in, pale and red-eyed from a sleepless night. His voice husky from strain, he rasped, "England and France at last dropped the mask. The attack on the Ruhr Valley was definitely planned." Then followed the usual tirade of accusation and denouncement. Belgium and The Netherlands had "plotted" against the Reich, had "fostered a German revolution," etc., etc. Long before he had finished, journalists knew that Germany...
...economy into a boom. Instead of booming, business activity (as measured by the Federal Reserve Board production index) backed & filled at the pre-war level, between 100 and 105% of the 1923-25 average. In certain industries, the war export market caused peak production, a real strain on capacity. But by & large, these were the industries that needed the stimulus least...
...full of zeal for one thing--keeping a nation out of war. On the other hand are Mr. Roosevelt's addresses, stirring and emotional, speaking of a civilization, a way of life that is in danger. With each new Nazi aggression the gulf between the two grows wider, the strain between them tenser. The invasion of the Lowlands evoked one of the most provocative of all the President's speeches, the one before the American Scientific Congress last Friday...
Despite a strain in his leg, Donahue ran the 120-yard high hurdles in 14.7 seconds, the best time of his career. He also covered the 220-yard low hurdle route in 24 seconds. This is only half a second or about four yards behind the best time made in the country this year. In the Penn relays Donahue's performance would have earned him first place, for the event was won with a time of 14.8 seconds...