Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mother may teach her child to stuff himself, but no such obvious cause is present ... in most obese persons." Dr. Cutting suggested that overeating may be caused by "some psychologic drive which requires satiation by eating"; or maybe in some cases the trait is inherited-there is a strain of laboratory mice that habitually gorges, grows pudgy. But Dr. Cutting insisted that those who gain weight on little food simply have more efficient metabolism than big eaters who stay thin. He was sure that fat comes from too much food, that the best way to fight fat is to fight...
...problem is not how to prevent the annihilation of the study of arts and letters, but how to adapt a venerable tradition in education to our modern age. And such an adaptation has, to my mind, been long overdue. Therefore the period of stress and strain on which we are now entering may well prove to be beneficial. Contrary to a view prevalent in certain quarters, academic institutions are among the most conservative in human history. An occasional jolt may be wholesome; it forces adjustments to meet now needs...
...York doctors were pretty sure last week that grey house mice can carry infantile paralysis, and said so, pretty clearly-for doctors. Clause Jungeblut and Gilbert Dalldorf reported in the American Journal of Public Health that they had found similar viruses (tentatively identified as Theiler's strain of the poliomyelitis group) in the brains of a man who died of infantile paralysis and a mouse found dead in his cellar. This was the first time such a virus has ever been found in a common house mouse...
...long trip also was a strain on the swimmers. The veterans stood up well, but a good many of the younger men on the team weren't used to such a journey. Another blow was the loss of Bob Goodspeed who was called back to Cambridge by his draft board after the New York encounter and was unable to continue on the second leg of the jaunt...
...script writers, has termed his visit a 'fishing expedition" only, to see what ideas and material Hooton can give him. He is not sure what application anthropological theory will have to his movie, other than supplying a scientific background for his argument against the superiority of the Nordic strain...