Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...engineers bore up well under the strain of quipsters' "Your programs aren't so hot any more," but soon found that the signal still flew out to Watertown. After a brief experiment with House drain pipes, they hit on the present scheme of piping programs through the University's electric lighting system. At present, extension cords reach only into the seven Houses, but only funds and wire are lacking for Yard coverage. Technical Director T. Michael Sanders '48 expects to have the project completed some time next fall...
...Hall selected two strains of adolescent (35 days old) male mice. One strain was black, the other "dilute brown." Both had been inbred by brother-&-sister matings for many generations, thus making sure that the strains would differ widely in hereditary characteristics, while individual mice within each strain would be almost alike genetically...
...economic conditions worsened, and France's uneasy coalition Government of Communists, Socialists and Catholics cracked under the strain, millions of Frenchmen might turn to De Gaulle again...
...Figge experimented with mice exposed to varying amounts of cosmic radiation. He varied the cosmic ray concentration by contriving a special cage with a thin lead roof, which does not stop cosmic radiation but intensifies its effect. He injected 184 mice of a susceptible strain with a chemical that almost invariably produces cancer, put some of the mice in ordinary cages and some in the special lead-covered ones. Sure enough, the mice exposed to more intense cosmic radiation developed cancer much faster than the others. Dr. Figge's conclusion: cosmic jays, acting on body cells, may help develop...
Sinatra, as usual, is a shy type who fails to get the girl; he not only sings with great effectiveness (best new song: Time After Time), but performs naturally and unaffectedly. Durante, as a high-school janitor, hasn't much to do beyond proving, without any strain, that he is one of the most likable entertainers in the business. Miss Grayson, prettier and more animated than ever, warbles an aria from Lakmé like an eisteddfod of thrushes, and does even better by Mozart's Lá Ci Darem la Mano, in which she is supported by Sinatra...