Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might coordinate the northern offensives. The Canadian thrust which reached Cleve threatened to roll up Rundstedt's right flank by a drive down the west bank of the Rhine. That threat may be a diversionary help to Simpson. Allied air power is already helping him, and the grueling strain imposed by the Russians is helping most of all. If Eisenhower and Montgomery have made his army their chosen instrument, he may be the man who will finally crack the German armies in the west...
...King Cotton tottering on his throne? In the worried South, researchers preparing for the coming postwar battle with rayon and other synthetic upstarts have been hard at work experimenting with likelier strains, new methods of machine cultivation (TIME, Nov. 13). Last week they heard good news : a Georgia State Experiment Station has developed a "super cotton" which may give the king new life. The new strain, called "Empire...
Cattlemen, crowded into Denver for the 1945 National Western Livestock Show, saw nothing at all unusual in this procedure. Both bulls were white-faced Herefords, the predominant Western beef strain and the pride of Western stockmen. In bringing $50,000-the highest price ever paid for a U.S. beef animal-the T.T.s Triumphant and Regent had hung up a mark for stockmen to shoot...
...spleen knew a little more about him and perhaps about themselves. British-U.S. relations may even have been improved by the week's exchange. Said the New York Sun: "A steady diet of mutual admiration and respect would be wonderful, but it would be a terrific strain on human nature...
...appeal of the play's theme and setting keeps pace with its errors and artifices. Lachlen's companions-a Yank, a Tommy, an Aussie, a New Zealander-with their unforced talk, their unmilitary longings, their international humor-are likable stage types. They are also, because they never strain to be, pretty convincing soldiers...