Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four major sources of money--the G. I. Bill, parent finances, student employment, and scholarships--can no longer support the student, the report states, and with added tuition and rent costs next fall, the strain will be even greater...
Professor Leach, after debunking the myths that two-thirds of all Harvard Law School men flunk out after the strain of working 26 hours every day, advised prospective lawyers to take no Law and plenty of English Composition as undergraduates...
...their teeth or combing their hair. Their interest in study gradually collapsed, but they felt closely identified with their group and with the starving throughout the world. They had occasional "spells of elation, sometimes bordering on ecstasy," or were unduly depressed and discouraged. For four of the men the strain was too great: they cheated by eating extra food and were dropped from the experiment...
March of Science. In Bar Harbor, Me., Dr. Clarence C. Little proudly announced that he had developed a strain of neurotic mice "so afraid of women that they will jump on a chair...
...wife of a mortician. If you could see, for even a week, the intense strain they are under and the comfort they give in their work, you'd refrain from your blasts. How many other men work day and night, seven days a week, going out in all kinds of weather, to ease the despair and pain of the bereaved ? Any financial benefits would never recompense for the inconvenience, hard work, loss of family life, etc., these men incur. . . . A doctor, dentist, or any other professional man may refuse to go when called but the "undertaker" never takes that...