Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...later according to all past experiences this postwar period of prosperity will end in a depression unless we adopt a positive program to maintain full employment. This is the great new field of economic statesmanship. Our modern highly urbanized, highly industrialized sections can no longer stand the social strain and economic shock of great depressions...
Platoon Leader of No: 8 has inaugurated a new order to relieve the strain of doing two things at the same time by the recruits--that of shifting notebooks while attempting to salute at colors. He just orders. "Change books, Hep!" Everything works out fine in the report...
...promise to line up the lesser clergy, he has cleared the way for lining up the people. On the surface the idea looks politically solid. But poverty, hunger and thousands of Loyalists rotting in Franco's prisons may prove it flimsier than it appears, may also be a strain on Bishops' oaths...
...plan for consolidating the administration of courses at the two colleges, as far as it is now known, is not coeducation. It is a reform whose effect on students is visible only in the catalogue, a measure which would have been desirable regardless of the war and its strain on the faculty and curriculum. Yet the cry of "coeducation," which its official denial, being reiterated today in Harvard Clubs throughout the country, can easily in Harvard Clubs throughout the country, can easily magnify a reform into a revolution. Rumor can be met only with action; the University must immediately...
...real American family could long stand the strain of Henry's curbless propensity for getting into adolescent jams...