Word: straining
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...urged, diddling him out of his savings and earnings at the rate of 19/6 in the ?, plus the Death Duties. In Ireland, he might have been reduced to the alcoholism which had frightened him as a child in the life of his father. And there was a second strain of Irish genius which can be developed to a higher pitch outside that country: the role of the stage-Irishman. Whenever that genius has submitted to the discipline of the theater, it has been irresistible. Behind Shaw the dramatist were Goldsmith, Sheridan and Wilde...
...Goes There? The English, notes harassed Biographer Vallentin, look upon Alice in Wonderland, with its "strong undercurrent of cruelty," as an ideal book for children. But how could even the English have missed the "curiously sadistic strain" that she found in some of Wells's very first work, his fancy for cataclysmic upheavals and devastating horrors? Biographer Vallentin wonders. And yet, to all appearances, he was a hearty, jovial man, bursting with a robust humor that Miss Vallentin tries in vain to reflect, and inspired with a sense of duty to mankind that she manages to get across very...
...trouble is a tired heart," said 61-year-old Sir Stafford Cripps last week as he resigned the Chancellorship of the Exchequer. "I suppose," he went on, "that the stress and strain of the past twelve years has had its effect. I suspected that all was not right twelve months ago and now this has been confirmed by my doctors...
...Wriston predicted. it is due partly to the fact that partial mobilization may cut enrollment by 30 to 40 percent, than forcing schools to dip into capital to meet expenses. Wriston noted that institutions with large endowments will probably be able to get through this period without too much strain...
Gaughan stressed that the disease is not the exclusive scourge of Skid Row, "but brings grief and misery to all social strain," He explained that the course was intended for adults, and cannot be taken for credit by student...