Word: strains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freud, Joyce, Lawrence, Babbitt and many others. Mr. Belisle's effort is the kind of thing one starts out disposed to ap- preciate to the limit. The first few pages--concerned chiefly with the ancients--are worthy of appreciation and the reader's pre-conceived sympathy undergoes no strain. But as things go on and the characters multiply at an alarming rate--there are some 64 of them in all--and the remarks attributed to each become more and-more random the limit set to one's appreciation is reached and, in the last couple of pages, unfortunately passed...
...respondence which occurred during the transaction was made known. Said the Governor of the Virgin Islands to the Chief of Naval Operations : WOULD BE GLAD TO HAVE FOR ST. CROIX ONE MILKING SHORT HORN BULL OLD ENOUGH FOR SERVICE AT EXPERIMENT STATION. . . . ONE HOLSTEIN BULL MILKING STRAIN, TWELVE SINGLE COMB WHITE HENS OR PULLETS AND TWO SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORN COCKERELS. HOGS NOT NEEDED. Replied the Chief of Naval Operation to the Governor of the Virgin Islands: NAVY DEPARTMENT IS HAVING DIFFICULTY FINDING A MILKING BULL. NUMEROUS FARMERS WHO HAVE BEEN INTERVIEWED INSIST THAT THERE IS NONE SUCH. THERE...
...been holding an important place ever since in the list of the season's not too serious fiction. It is the story of two English boys, their school-days in France, life in pre-war London and the war, which breaks out in time to relieve the strain of discovering that they both love the same girl...
...specialty it seems, is the grand finale of a fortnight of eighteenth century dances. The Vagabond is looking forward to the record of Frederick Stock conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Bach's Suite in B minor, for flute and string orchestra. And after the overture, he will strain his ears for the stately rhythm of the polonaise, and the humorous, catchy tones of the badinerie, which shows Bach in his lightest vein...
...which those men are referred who failed badly in examinations or for other reasons give cause for doubt as to their fitness for college. It seems a sensible notion. In any group of boys of college age there will naturally be a certain amount of emotional stress and strain--it is up to the College which is their parent for that interval to see what it can do to avoid the waste and failure which is incident thereto...