Word: strained
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...result, an even division for and against, proved that the scientists are as thoroughly split as the continents. Less controversial was a speech by Sir Harold Hartley, the group's president, who came with his own list of the world's biggest problems: 1) the growing strain of increasing population, 2) the malnutrition and endemic sickness of perhaps half the world, 3) the inequalities between the more forward and the backward peoples, 4) the gradual depletion of resources and their unequal distribution, 5) the human problem of improving the way of life of many of the earth...
...merger will move Manufacturers up from sixth to fifth biggest U.S. bank.† with more than 100 branches, and the largest neighborhood banking service in one city in the world. This new eminence will be no strain on Manufacturers' President Harvey Dow Gibson. In his nearly 20 years as president of Manufacturers Trust, the bank has already swallowed up six smaller banks, and with this merger has boosted its deposits from $219 million to $2.3 billion. Gibson, who works as hard as any of his banking colleagues, and at 68 plays harder than most of them, still finds time...
...long (5:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.), and though it was broken up by a nap after lunch, as often as not there was a briefcase full of evening homework. Harry Truman, said his doctor, was down to 173 Ibs.-about right-but he was "under a terrible strain. Ordinarily, he can pass things off, political battles and things of that kind. But this [Korea] is different...
...Particular Strain. The Senate, always sadder & wiser than the House, continued to debate. Still the most voluble and stubborn opponent of granting such executive powers was Ohio's Robert Taft, who talked as if all the mobilization now going on was meant only to lick North Korea, instead of preparing for something worse. "I do not intend to say that the Korean war is not a real war," he argued. "But from an economic standpoint, it is not any particular strain on the economy...
...ninth inning the strain began to tell. Bickford walked two Dodgers. "I was really nervous," he admitted later. Then, with two men on base and one out, Dodger Outfielder Duke Snider banged into a double play, ending the game and giving Bickford his no-hitter.* Final score: Boston 7, Brooklyn...