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Word: strains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...study project stands as the second of its kind in the country, since a similar one is going into its second year at the University of Washington in Seattle. Designed to case the strain en veterans' wallets, the program was set up after Cambridge doctors expressed concern over the problem of protecting the health of the concentrated GI child communities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Government Sponsors Health Clinics To Protect Veterans' Children Here | 9/18/1947 | See Source »

With a rataplan and a paradiddle, U.S. radio last week opened its 1947-48 season. But it was no use for listeners to strain their ears hoping for something new. Nearly every one of the 80-odd new network shows would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: More of the Same | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

Founder Woodward was caught up in a whirl of interviews, picture-taking, mail-opening. In the midst of it, she led an L.B.K. parade down Main Street that tied up Dallas midtown traffic for an hour and a half. Paraders carried signs saying: "Short Skirts. Save Dollars. Save Eye-strain." Short-skirted girls chased long-skirted girls with brooms. Finally, the L.B.K.s charged up to the doors of the famed Neiman-Marcus department store. Shaking brooms and fists, they cried: "Down with the long! Up with the short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Resistance | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Approval of increasing the size of the College would permit efforts to strain the last possible space out of University buildings. Watson pointed to the possibility of converting the Hemenway Gymnasium into a temporary dormitory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College May Discard 5400 'Limit' on Fall Enrollment | 8/28/1947 | See Source »

...Parents were willing to be mature, to take responsibility; sensing this, the young deferred to them and were content to remain young. There was, he thinks, a more serene friendliness between boys & girls when sexuality was postponed in favor of romance. "Statisticians have yet to reckon the nerve strain in American life which comes from precocious attempts at maturity and painful struggles to retard middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From Wilmington to Date | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

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