Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another Midwestern teacher who made Fine realize what his statistics about overcrowded and rundown schools meant. Said she: "When it's cloudy we strain our eyes or wait until a little more sunlight comes in. If we had electric lights we could do much more work here...
...fast, nor in such a creaking weight of company. Lines formed out to the sidewalk waiting to get in. The little fifth-floor gallery, which usually regarded 100 people a day as a crowd, was filled with so many hundreds every day that the building superintendent worried about undue strain on the floor. Silver-haired Art Dealer Sam Kootz was delighted; he had scooped Manhattan's arty 57th Street with the first one-man show of new Picassos since before...
Please extend my congratulations to Miss Elliott, the British schoolteacher who told us [TIME, Jan. 6] what she thinks of U.S. schools. I absolutely agree with her. After five years of high-school teaching, I gave it up for a less well paying job where the strain was less and where I could lead a normal adult life...
...reaching effect of the gate's truculence has been to instill a phobia against all gates in the malleable minds of Freshmen. Passers-by are shocked to see healthy students balk before the gates, spin around, and scrabble over the walls surrounding the Yard rather than face the mental strain of a passage through the menacing doors...
...addition, Spring influx of first-term and returning students, who normally put the greatest strain on available supplies, is expected to be comparatively small. University Hall predicted the arrival in February of 385 additional veterans and 198 new freshmen...