Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...realize that any, books we recommend will have to be read during the brief intervals of hard work and often under the strain of danger and a bad climate," the report explained. "Consequently, we have tried to pick out readable books, which will hold a man's attention from beginning...
...Army, keeping all names secret, told the tragic story and its aftermath. A general court-martial of seven colonels had tried the officer on a charge of voluntary manslaughter. He had chosen not to testify for himself. His counsel had argued that he acted irrationally under great emotional strain, that medical testimony left a reasonable doubt whether the sergeant died from bullets or from burning...
...drew as many as 300 responses, a considerable number of them from grownups. Sample story ingredients: a milk bottle, a violin, and a rake; a jockey, some snow, and a duck. Next week: an egg, a towel, and a light-all about an egg that almost cracks under the strain of modern living...
...when there was none, 20,115,137,677 cigarets went on the domestic market. In January of this year, there was only .185% less, even though no one seemed to have got a full supply. These figures, civilian smokers complained acridly, blithely ignored the fact that the strain of war on the home front had turned them all into chain smokers...
Since last May several U.S. doctors have reported babies with congenital eye and heart defects which they ascribed to German measles in the mother. In trying to explain why this tragic aftermath of a trifling disease was never noticed before, some doctors guess that an unusually virulent strain of German measles virus may have appeared in Australia and been carried to other countries by heavy war time traffic. But Dr. Stimson thinks that doctors have just begun to notice what has been happening all along. Possible reasons why the worst damage is done in the early months: 1) the placental...