Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Many or Too Few. Most Warren County churchgoers have taken well to the accent on youth. Attendance at the student-served churches has picked up. But the benefit cuts both ways. Explains Carter: "When I was a student, 42% dropped out of the ministry because of the strain of doing a job without any help or supervision. These young people learn more in a month under supervision than we learned in three years by trial and error...
Noting Zhdanov's new duties and honors, the handicappers who try to figure who will win the race as Stalin's successor now believe that Zhdanov is back in form, after a severe strain to his reputation in the Finnish war; they rate Zhdanov just after Molotov, which is very good going for a man who 15 years ago was so little known in Communist politics that he did not even get his name in the Soviet Encyclopedia...
Goldsborough said quietly--even the lawyers had to strain to catch his words--that "it seems to me this is one of the most serious situations that has ever developed in a republic...
...chaos the problem of serving efficiently unprecedented numbers of Yardlings. But now that last-minute breakfast stampedes and 1 o'clock lunch hordes alike are handled with speed and dispatch, the union should be able to admit women guests, at least on Saturday nights, without too great a strain. The Houses, also operating well over normal capacity, feed women five times weekly. In addition, the Union management has found that one or two hundred diners more or less make little difference in planning a meal, and admits to a sharp decline in Saturday attendance, probably caused by students...
...Marxist agricultural commune, and the immense difficulties involved in buying desert and turning it into a self-sustaining home are presented in detail. Joseph contrasts the high-strung, intellectual European Jew with the ". . . blond, freckled, broad-featured, heavy-boned farmers' sons, peasant lads . . . and slightly dull,"--the new Jewish strain developing in Palestine...