Word: strains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greenough is not giving up any of his courses and at present has no intentions of resigning from the Faculty of the University, but merely feels that the work of the House Mastership is an additional strain at this time. His resignation marks the first break in the original list of seven men who were chosen at the beginning of the House Plan. Assuming the position in 1930 he was, with Julian L. Coolidge '95, professor of Mathematics, the first to hold the position of House Master in the University...
...integral part of it, appears Victoria Van Bret; guardian of the Van Bret millions, tyrant of the Van Bret household. Around the commanding presence and warped soul of this queenly spinster revolves a tense drama of hate and fear, swelling in an unvarying crescendo of emotional strain to a brilliant climax in the last scene. "Double Door" is not a great play, but it is one of the most effective utilizations of a single atmosphere to achieve a high degree of emotional response from the audience that this reviewer has seen...
...official corruption, their faith in parliamentarians is still unimpaired. Most reliable reports would seem to substantiate this theory; but in French politics there is very little information that can be called reliable, and parliament Aryanism, which entered France as an English importation, may very well collapse under the strain of the present crisis. Now, however, as in 1875, the strongest guarantee of the existing system is the complete disagreement which exists between the mutually incompatible political parties...
Higher than physical comfort the scholar holds adequate time for research. To classroom duties which distract him at every university, Harvard adds tutorial work. Tugged three ways at once, the scholar finds himself spread thin. President Conant would ease the classroom strain...
...Theoretically and logically public ownership and operation meet the known ills of the present situation better than any other remedy." But: "I am not now prepared to recommend . . . public ownership and operation . . . for the principal reason that the country is not now financially in a condition to stand the strain...