Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Professor: Nevertheless, he'll be working under a terrific strain. Well, there's Tuss McLaughry of Brown. Tuss, I've got a bone to pick with Harvard on your behalf. Despite the elaborate fanfare of publicity from the Harvard Athletic Association, Soldiers Field Saturday looked like they used the Cambridge Fire Department on it the night before. Just a minute, here's Master Tom Stephenson. Come...
...resourceful Physicist David Hsiung set up the only power plant within hundreds of miles by coaxing the engine of an old Studebaker bus to burn charcoal, a Diesel engine to run on walnut oil. The biology department began crossbreeding different varieties of Yunnan ducks to get a new, improved strain. While the college faculty was considering the best way to spread the Christian message in Hsichow (no missionary had ever worked there), a student quite independently set the ball rolling by converting two local schoolteachers. Hua Chung had no caps & gowns for its graduating class last July...
...President, though his face was much older than on his last visit to Harvard some five years ago when he attended the Fly Club initiation of his son John, didn't seem particularly worn by the strain of the last months. He talked jocularly and appeared completely in his element...
Last fortnight, in the Rockefeller Journal of Experimental Medicine, Drs. Claus W. Jungeblut and Murray Sanders of Columbia University announced the next step: successful immunization of monkeys against polio. First they took a strain of live polio virus deadly to monkeys and injected it into a cotton rat. He frisked around apparently in perfect health. Then they passed a portion of his polio-saturated brain on to Rat No. II. He became mildly sick. A suspension of his brain, in turn, was given to Rat No. III. He became paralyzed, and his brain, when given to mice, killed them...
Even such professional cynics as newsmen knew that no mere love of office or appetite for acclaim could drive a man to the punishment Willkie was taking daily -not the boos, but the grinding strain of the campaign. "A punch-drunk prophet," said one newshawk...