Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the Chicago Bear approximation of the T, the motion-left-and-right was quickly-adapted by Charlie Caldwell of Princeton to the single wing. "With a man in motion, a play can always explode," is the opinion of one of the device's fathers, Coach Harlow. The resulting strain on the ingenuity of the defensive secondary lines is tremendous, and they must always overcome the tendency to commit themselves before the play unravels. If the safety loses a step to a man in motion, on the other hand, he can lose the ball game...
...mouse holocaust was a major disaster to researchers in medicine and biology. The Jackson Memorial Laboratory, though primarily devoted to biological research, had been for years the leading source of experimental mice. Last year it shipped 350,000 to U.S. and foreign researchers. Deprived of the Bar Harbor strains, many researchers will have to start their laborious work all over again. To a researcher, a pedigreed mouse is a precision instrument. No ordinary mouse, nor a mouse of another strain, can be expected to react in exactly the same...
...Know Where I'm Going," and the same preoccupation with British life and people, British mores and traits, and above all British virtues evidences itself. Even the fine film "The Captive Heart" about prisoners of war in Germany, is really a study of British character under stress and strain with the usual fair play motive neatly interpolated...
...dink tradition," an editor's note comments, "was being imposed by force on similarly-protesting Freshmen long before Mr. --- was born, and the Princeton spirit seems to have survived the strain...
...scale which will be ineffective and therefore only a waste of good money or to increase the national debt to finance European aid. In the latter case bank reserves would be hiked by the sale of additional Federal securities with the result that more credit would be available to strain the economic balance of the nation...