Word: strains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Besides, women don't get tired of talking. I am on duty here in Rome five hours or more seven days a week. Each day I read news for an hour and 40 minutes without a break, and later I announce additional news. This is quite a strain and women seem to stand it better than...
...point involving discussion whether any professional branch of the Arts deserves aid or should exist solely on its merits. Almost an axiom in contrast with self-sufficiency is the fact that the Theatre to produce consistently artistic work must be independent of financial strain...
With him did not sail French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand. During the week all Paris was agog with rumors that M. Raymond Poincare. invalid though he is, has decided to strain every nerve to prevent M. Briand from succeeding M. Doumergue as President...
...will not solve the difficulty permanently, and at the same time will increase the annual budget. According to the majority of Republican leaders the inevitable return to "prosperity" will obviate any further increase in taxation, but prosperity is a variable factor and the burden of interest will put a strain on the government's credit in the future...
...past and will probably continue to be so in the future. Unless the deflcit is met by increased taxes, however, the country as a whole will suffer indirectly through higher prices. A billion dollar deflcit is a heavy load under any circumstances, but a raise in taxes now will strain national credit less in the future than would wide-spread borrowing by the federal government, which is the course of least resistance at the present time...