Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House System has not fulfilled its potentialities, and personal contact between student and instructor is at a minimum. Although these shortcomings should not be accepted complacently, in the final accounting, the academic year 1946-47 has been one in which Harvard has demonstrated its vitality. Its capacity has been strained, but the strain has only served to demonstrate a reserve of energy that is not called upon in ordinary years...
...technical direction of the performance which is scheduled to appear for five days, December 2 to 6. Kilty stated that work will begin on the play early next fall and he hopes that by giving the players the additional summer months in which to study their parts, the academic strain of intensive rehearsals can be avoided...
Entering the last hundred yards, Lowell tired and caught crabs under the strain of the fast pace. Elephant cox "Bree" Taylor stepped up his early 28 into a sprinting 34 and edged ahead of the Winthrop eight which crossed the line at 7:29.5. Lowell was clocked...
...spectacle was too much for many antiCommunists. Constant defeat at the hands of an enemy whose might was plainly visible, and yet elusive as a shadow, put a crippling psychological strain on Communism's enemies. Not all were driven as far as Giuseppe Rapelli, Christian Democratic Labor leader who tried to break Communist Giuseppe di Vittorio's iron grip on the labor unions, and is now in the hospital with a nervous breakdown. But all seem paralyzed to ineffectually, a prey to fear and doubt...
...Public audiences. He would wave his entourage aside, and let the people throng around him. Once he lost his ring in the crush. Another time, a woman begged him to hear her confession then & there. (The Pope did, in a secluded corner of the room.) But the strain of the war years has told on him. He finds these long public audiences tiring, especially notices the fatigue after hours of gently helping to lift visitors from their knees...