Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...English Department will have decided that F. Scott Fitzgerald is far enough in the past to have theses written about him. History and Literature professors will speak of the strain of mysticism running from John Donne through T. S. Eliot to A. A. Milne and the Freudian significance of Terry and the Pirates. Members of the History Department will still be fired for speaking to members of the Sociology Department and vice versa, and the Economics Department will have crected a statue to J. M. Keynes in front of Holyoke House...
...route carried 1,486,000 tons of lumber, 1,223,000 tons of foodstuffs from the Pacific Coast, 1,221,000 tons of steel products from the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts. To move all this over land will take 17,500 railroad cars, and the railroads are already under strain...
...With nine turbulent years in office behind him and an unknown number of war years ahead, it would be astonishing if Franklin Roosevelt showed no signs of strain; it is astonishing that, most of the time, he shows so little...
...times of strain and calamity the old dark gods emerge from the jungle and crude, primitive religion comes back. We are today threatened with it again in the prevailing cult of astrology...
...through Poland. In 1940 he conquered all the strongholds of Western Europe. In 1941 he conquered Greece and Crete-and Libya for a time. But in 1941 he tackled Russia, failed for the first time to conquer promptly and instead involved Germany in an exhausting war-a war whose strain has shaken Germany to the core and seriously undermined her chances for ultimate victory...