Word: strainings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department of Personnel and the Board of Admissions cooperated in refusing to enroll these men unless they could prove that their finances had become adequate, the unfortunate alternatives would be eliminated. The individuals excluded would probably find a career at some less expensive institution more satisfactory, and the strain on the University would unquestionably be lessened. For this reason, the Princetonian urges that some policy of definite exclusion of surplus applicants for student employment be put into effect as soon as possible. The Princetonian...
...following remarks which were understood to refer to Scot MacDonald, though Lord Cecil did not mention his name: "Too many [Prime Ministers] have appeared to lose the faculty of decision. That seems to be one of the faculties that wear out soonest. To decide makes a considerable strain on the nervous force and the strain increases with apprehended unpopularity of the decision. Then ensues a search for some means to avoid effort. Postponement in its various forms is welcomed. Some so-called compromise is adopted which leaves all difficulties unsolved. Or a royal commission is appointed. Or the state...
...capital investment is in power plants, transmission lines, substations. The Japanese took to the game so wholeheartedly that today their system is actually overbuilt; generating stations with a capacity of some 300,000 k. w. lie idle. Burdened, too. with severe competition among the leading power companies and the strain of paying interest on foreign loans in depreciated yen, the industry has fallen upon evil days. Profits of 10% or 12% have shrunk to 4% or 5%, dividends have been pared or omitted entirely. Last week Baron Seinosuke Goh, head of Tokyo Electric, declared that the sole hope of Japan...
...educational institution in the city in adding to its funds for preventive work. Last year 3000 scales were bought by men in the University, while 6500 were bought in 1930. This year, owing partly to the unemployment situation which has affected health conditions, the Association is under a greater strain and must sell more seals...
...spirited, ingratiating, comparatively decent and free from bad errors on which G. 0. Partisans waited in vain to pounce. He had been careful not to promise too much. His travels had effectively silenced Republican talk that he was a crippled weakling who could not stand the White House strain...