Word: strained
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...content with bringing in poverty from the outside, but we produce it in a wholesale way. There are three great tragic armies of working girls; those who, because of insufficient wage and excessive work, fall early victims to tuberculosis; those who, due to the strain of long hours, are succumbing to nervous prostration; and those who, because of worrying on the problem of mere existence, yield to melancholia...
...Saturday afternoon on Yale field. Except for a few minutes in the third period, the University team outplayed its opponents, but in spite of this, misplays blighted Harvard's hopes when they were highest. These mistakes showed the weak links in the chain which gave way under the strain...
...forms of sport cross-country running places the greatest strain upon the heart and lungs, and for no other reason than this, a competent trainer and coach should be provided to prevent over-work on the part of inexperienced athletes. As a training-school for distance men, cross-country running plays an important part in promoting the success of the track team. This may perhaps be emphasized by the fact that in the seven years from 1902 to 1908, Cornell won the intercollegiate run each year and placed 21 men in the mile and two-mile races of the intercollegiate...
...make-up mid-year examinations, the unfortunate undergraduate who happens to be ill during the mid-year period is obliged to take both sets of three-hour examinations at the same time. Finals alone tax the industry and ability of most men to no slight degree, and, if the strain of a second series of tests is added, a man's power to do himself justice is nearly annihilated...
...halves are subdivided into four periods of 15 minutes each, so that the prolonged strain of 35 minutes of continuous play will now be removed, and the total time of play is reduced 10 minutes...