Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Will U.S. resources stand the strain of rebuilding Europe under the Marshall Plan? This week, Interior Secretary Julius ("Cap") Krug, who had been designated by the President to find out, answered with a qualified but resounding...
...rigidly pegs the dates for Spring and Summer term make-ups squarely in the center of the October hour exam period. An inflexible examination schedule that could conceivably force a man to take a three-hour final and two hour exams in one day not only places an undue strain on the student, but also leads to unsatisfactory grades in both testing groups. Only those undergraduates who were ill or legitimately excused during the original examination period are eligible for re-takes; they should not be victimized by University inertia...
Norway's Crown Princess Martha, 46, was getting along fine after an operation for chronic back strain, at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital...
...Outside Drones. This process can be repeated indefinitely without the help of any outside drone. The product is a pure, highly inbred strain of bees, which can be crossed with other strains to give desirable hybrids. For $95 the Department will provide bee breeders with the necessary equipment...
...Century Rome in his Josephus trilogy. He has worked on Proud Destiny in Santa Monica, where he settled after fleeing Europe in 1940, and the novel smells faintly of the Hollywood atmosphere in which it was composed. The period sets are painstaking, the main characters are photogenic. With no strain on his attention, the reader can savor from one large dish a thousand tidbits of 18th Century custom & morality that he would otherwise have to root for in the garden of biography and memoirs...