Word: strainings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus it is that the academic life has a value and a trust all-important in times of strain. For four years the student has his one great opportunity so to educate himself and improve his mind that he will never fall victim to half-truths. Sheltered and removed from reality though university life may seem, the student can at least be sure he is not being fooled. And if, following President Conant's plea, those who have the opportunities of the best education attainable continue to think in after life as they have been instructed in college, the light...
...Marseilles where he boarded H. M. S. Sussex last week and steamed away to manufacture goodwill in Australia. Originally Their Majesties' fourth son, Prince George, had been scheduled to go but the King-Emperor decided that for Prince George the Commonwealth of Australia would be "too great a strain" (TIME, Sept...
...Cockroaches have been blamed for causing cancer by no less a person than Nobel Prizewinner Johannes Fibiger of Denmark. Many a lesser light has offered a variant of the germ theory. Subtle irritants, chemical or mechanical, have been suggested. Likewise cancer has been attributed to nervous strain, city life, life itself, breakdown of individual body cells, degeneracy of the entire constitution...
Vastly encouraged about Prince George, King George sent him out last winter to do South Africa and Australia. Seventeen thousand miles of South Africa was all he could stand (TIME. Jan 29). Sadly King George announced that the "heavy strain" of Australia would be too much for his fourth son, appointed his third son the Duke of Gloucester to do Australia this autumn. Last week loyal London editors hinted that perhaps Prince George's romance was the real reason for the substitution. They were confident that he will be equal to the strain of marriage. When Prince George got back...
...five "blokes" whom Perry complimented anonymously last week, two will be absent from Forest Hills?Australia's Jack Crawford, who was too weary to play any more after the Davis Cup interzone final, and Great Britain's "Bunny" Austin who dislikes the strain of a long tournament. With these exceptions the names on the West Side Club scoreboards include nearly all the best players in the world. Topping the list are the members of the U. S. Davis Cup team, Sidney Wood, Frank Shields, George Lott and Lester Stoefen. Experts wondered how o rate the chances of Berkeley Bell, once...