Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fixed mostly on the hands of the sensitive altimeter. Around 5,000 he eased the ship out into level flight, called the field again: "Dive completed . . . returning to base." When he landed, a doctor checked him over. Nothing wrong. Mechanics checked the Airacobra for skin wrinkles, other evidences of strain. All O.K. Andy McDonough was on his way back to his airline job in Atlanta by the time technicians had checked his movie film, corrected his airspeed readings for temperature and pressure. Pilot McDonough had reported his speed at something over 500. Actually, said technicians...
This challenge to America and to the democratic national states summons the use of every energy at our command, in the most effective manner possible. Both external affairs and internal relations will be subjected to the very severest strain, and will test to the limit our capacity for readjustment to the realities of the modern struggle for life. Among the ways and means of survival in this fateful hour, administrative management will loom large-if not the largest single factor in the death grapple we now face. What we encounter is not just another "interesting, problem" but a bloody clash...
Casey stated that despite the strain of constant bombings, British civilian morale is admirable. The recent activity in the Mediterranean and of the RAF in bombing military objectives in Germany, must both be regarded as "plus points" in favor of Britain and her allies...
Originally only Dartmouth was participating in the program, but Harvard came into the picture in 1939, when three graduates who had come to the conclusion that the United States faced a dangerous social strain unless something drastic and constructive were done for the young people of the nation, were put in touch with Professor Rosen-stock-Hussy's project by a mutual Cambridge friend, Mrs. Henry Copley Greene...
...glutton for work, Dr. Millis declared that men should be willing to work ten or twelve hours a day in a national emergency, though 40 hours was enough under ordinary circumstances. "Where the work isn't fun the worker is under a nervous strain and needs leisure." For him, he said, work was fun, and he was willing to work 60 to 90 hours a week...