Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...favorite opera was not Die Meistersinger (as always reported by Nazi propagandists) but Franz Lehar's luscious, low-brow Merry Widow. Sir Thomas invited Hitler to visit him in England. "He said," remarked Sir Thomas later, ''that he was afraid it might put too much strain on our police force. . . . Naturally, I made no comment on that...
Under the strain of war exigencies which have shortened by half the average undergraduate career, it has proven necessary to limit the reading period to a fortnight. But undergraduate criticism has centered not so much about the curtailed time of the period as about the increasing disorganization and waste of valuable opportunity that have characterized the system of late, even before the war. Unlike the "500 or 600 pages" of reading matter per course that lent meaning and value to the period in earlier years, reading period assignments increasingly are marked by their shortness. Too often have undergraduates been able...
When a sulfa drug comes along, some ordinarily susceptible bacteria do not just lie down and take it. Some of them develop such resistance that they can even multiply in the presence of the enemy. Up to now, laboratory workers have been unable to prove how a resistant strain differs from a susceptible one of the same species. They look alike, grow alike, form the same kind of colonies...
...Science last week Maurice Landy and coworkers of the Army Medical School in Washington announced that they had used the test with positive results: a resistant strain of Staphylococcus aureus (pus bacteria) was definitely making more PAB than its sulfa-susceptible twin. They attributed its sulfa-resistance to the PAB -possibly a big step forward in chemotherapy...
...mother in a plant," says Miss Geissler, "is only a fraction of a work unit because she puts a new strain on laundries, shops, nurses, hospitals and other services. A New York planebuilder recently complained that when he hired 5,800 women, he had to get 1,800 men to replace them when they stayed home to wash diapers...