Word: strain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Harvard, coupled with the information that these men must wait several months before they can start their training, and it becomes plain that the course is pretty well bogged up. The instruction will have to be telescoped during the second half of they year, which may put considerable strain on the students regular curriculum...
...people are only dupes and victims of the Nazis. Stanch old Lord Milne, who proudly recalled that he fought under Queen Victoria, keynoted that he believes every nation gets the kind of Government its people want or deserve and that the Germans have that now. "There is a deep strain of brutality in the German nation!" he boomed, roundly begged to differ with the large school of intellectual-liberals who said during World War I or who say today, "We have no quarrel with the German people." As a veteran commander, the Field Marshal called it "dangerous" to keep...
There is a bright side to Rumania and her people and this side should be brought into prominence before the American public. The King, too, under great stress and strain, is trying to do a good job. He should be encouraged, and should be aided. Let them who have never sinned throw the first stone. LEO WOLFSON...
...these new systems of appointment in themselves do nothing to alleviate the strain on present instruction which was created when the assistant professors were sent down the chute last spring. At that time several departments were left under-staffed in vitally important fields, and the situation can be corrected only by rehiring several of these men--of proven brilliance--where they are needed. The new policies provide the instruments by which this therapy can be accomplished, for the men can be taken on as additional associate professors...
...more intimately related to America by common ties and friendship than either Czechoslovakia or Poland. The significance of the Finnish conquest, (its outcome is undebatable) may be less far-reaching than those of its predecessors, but pacifistic sentiment in the United States will clearly be put to another severe strain...