Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Africans of all shades jampacking Johannesburg's Market Square in protest and touched off the biggest mass meeting ever held in Kimberley was that of Justice Minister Charles ("Blackie") Swart. To symbolize "the deep desire" of the Malan government "to relieve the people of the Union from the strain of the war years," Minister Swart released from prison five wartime traitors and saboteurs. One was 34-year-old ex-Boxer Sydney Roby Leibbrandt, who had been landed from a German U-boat to organize the pro-Nazi underground. South Africans remembered him as the man who, when caught...
...Carnegie Hall, no one had to strain to hear what frantic Trumpeter Gillespie and his 15 boppers (including four other trumpets) had to say. Whatever else, bebop is screechingly loud. It is also breathlessly fast, with some biting dissonance and shifty rhythms, with the brass blaring out accents up on top. Pieces like Two Bass Hit and Stay On It didn't sound like "moldy fig" music (boppese for "decadent" Dixieland jazz); but, except for Dizzy's wild, fast-riding solos, they did sound like something Duke Ellington had thought better of a long time...
...inter-House athletic system, it would be a simple way for Freshmen to work off the required weekly hours of physical training, and team competition will undoubtedly prove much more attractive than impersonalized gym classes. Existing athletic facilities should be able to take care of Yard intramurals with little strain. Even if extra supervisors and equipment are needed, it seems clear that a Freshman sports program deserves them...
...full flowering of this system put somewhat of a strain of hard-working professors. Men often rose early to give a lecture in the Yard, and then had to trek to Radcliffe a couple of hours later to deliver the same talk. This did not inspire the same high quality for both talks; a man could hardly be expected to master much enthusiasm the second time...
...size, the Union will be able to fulfill the needs of the new class, instead of serving as a proving-ground for line-crashing tactics. Yard upperclassmen will feel more amiable towards the interval before they are placed in House quarters. And the Houses, which can easily stand the "strain" of sizable non-resident groups, should welcome the newcomers as a possible invigorating force for the far from sprightly House activity programs. As a move to distribute the excess student population more fairly, the masters' decision appears to be in the category of better later than never...