Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the proposal is "being explored," no definite decision is imminent. The Department is currently under heavy strain with preparations for the opening of Quincy House, renovation of the Leverett House Dining Room and problems at the Graduate School. Under the circumstances, the Department has been unable to increase its normal, continued study of the problem...
...Crucible also suffers from an occasional note of strain and shrillness in the writing, and this is pointed up by Michael Murray's somewhat overwrought direction, which tends too much toward stealthy, wildly disarrayed entrances and impassioned throwings to the ground. The play needs this sort of effect, and would be dull if Mr. Miller had not contrived frequent occasion for it; but Mr. Murray does not know quite when to stop. However, he has handled several of the crises with great skill...
...straight-A student in off-duty courses at the University of Arizona, Specialist Moore soon learned on his Air Force duty how altitude affects the human body. Without oxygen a man blacks out above 20,000 ft., suffers from expanding intestinal gas around 25,000, feels intolerable heart strain even with a high-pressure oxygen mask at 50,000, dies instantly from boiling blood (bubbling off gas like soda water) at 63,000 ft. if not pressurized inside a space suit...
...four weeks of rehearsals and ten days of taping, Frankenheimer sandwiched his work in between his cast's commitments to Broadway shows, even insisted that Robards move in with him so that he could keep the convivial actor under surveillance. One TV crew member summed up the strain in a ditty fitted to a My Fair Lady tune: "I'm getting murdered in the morning/ Ding dong the Bell is going to chime...
...legend" or glamour--what have you. Actually, my last year in the graduate school coincided with work on my record and it was getting so that I could do little else. The math department and I agreed there was no point going on under this kind of strain so I didn't register the next fall. But I do hope to finish off my thesis eventually...