Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's Navy proudly calls itself the silent service, but last week First Lord of the Admiralty Albert Victor Alexander let slip a significant phrase: "The strain upon our destroyer fleet has been very great." Silent facts bore out this admission. Many destroyers have been at sea an average of over 25 days a month. One cruised 111 days with only 19 days in port. Another traveled 52,248 miles - more than twice the earth's circumference - in nine months...
...Germany's attacks continued, without growing much heavier but with systematic aim and frequency, neutral observers watched Britain for signs of cumulative strain, for creeping paralysis such as preceded France's sudden collapse under steady pressure...
...Although few viruses have ever been seen, scientists have measured many of them, and can identify them by pattern, in much the same way as a blind man knows the shape of his furniture by groping around. Viruses are measured in several different ways. One is to strain a substance known to contain a virus (like sap from a diseased plant) through a filter with pores of submicroscopic size. The smallest virus, that of foot-and-mouth disease, is ten-millionths of a millimeter in diameter...
...afraid I shall never be able to accomplish anything sensational, but tackling the Alps will be a relief after the terrible strain we are feeling now. No. I won't talk politics! All my prophecies have been so utterly wrong that it is useless to indulge in more guesswork...
...children. . . . We have had three extremely generous offers of homes and education for our own younger children, for the period of the war. If we had been still living in London I think I should have accepted, knowing that everything would be done to make them happy; but the strain of separation on children is great, and what they may lose in formal education they will gain in the other kind of education that will come through living in a community where, at last, all must take their share in work and courage for a common end. In the meantime...