Word: strained
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...English scholar during a holiday excursion in the Hartz Mountains subjected himself one day to a severe physical strain which produced a singular mental disturbance. He was on his feet from morning till night, and in the course of the day's wanderings made several arduous ascents, taking no rest and neither eating nor sleeping. At night when he reached a place where he could supply his needs he was unable, to his great astonishment, to recollect a single word of the German language, although he ordinarily spoke it with fluency. His memory did not fail him in any other...
...carries his oar up too high at the end of his feather and misses the first part of his stroke. He begins the swing before dropping his oar blade into the water, and then when he does get hold his swing is retarded and his shoulders give with the strain put upon them. The swing is thus subdivided into two movements. Bow is the only one of the crew who fails to row with a perfectly straight back, and as No. 2 is particularly strong on that point bow's faulty shape is rendered all the more conspicuous. With...
...future on the part of the crew. We know how hard it is to resist the charms of the season, but the honor of victory will prove no small reward for such praiseworthy labor. With the success of their predecessors before them, we would urge the freshmen to strain every nerve to add one more triumph to the list of former classes...
...instant, and, in reply to the oft-advanced argument that the mind is not in an active state during the evening, it may certainly be said that if the faculties are sufficiently alert to be occupied in severe study for four or five hours they could certainly bear the strain of recitation for one-half of the time. While the project may seem a little visionary now, it will surely be adopted at some time in the near future, for it has many advantages...
...though devoid of any brilliant features, was nevertheless characterized by steady playing which is sure to win in the long run. Bean's pitching cannot be taken as a sample of what he is able to do against a college nine, as he has been suffering lately from a strain received while practising. Tilden's umpiring was very poor throughout the game and Brown was benefitted in almost every instance by his bad judgment, the Boston papers to the contrary notwithstanding. Coolidge, Olmsted and Greene led the batting, and Lovering, Nichols and Chase did the best fielding. A very noticeable...