Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...practicality of mechanizing schools, he says that the machines--even a large number of them--would not strain our economy. "A country which annually produces millions of refrigerators, dish-washers, automatic washing-machines, automatic clothes-dryers, and automatic garbage disposers can certainly afford the equipment necessary to educate its citizens to high standards of competence in the most effective...
Britain disagreed, and with some bitterness. "It is painfully clear to everybody, except Mr. Dulles, not only that the Middle East might blow up at any moment, but also that American dilatoriness and reluctance to look at the Middle East as it is impose the severest possible strain on Western unity," snapped Britain's weekly Spectator...
...seems like a good tough team," judged Coach Corey Winn after the match, "and all the players looked good for this early in the season." First outdoor practice was on Wednesday. Winn predicted coming matches with M.I.T. and Brown will strain the squad more than the Milton match, however...
Although the expense of educating children presses heavily upon many men in their forties and fifties, the financial strain is usually greater during the obstetric and natal period of married life...
...used to justify a salary increase for at least half of the teaching profession. This somewhat invalidates the committee's use of the "excellence" argument, for the support of the whole top half of the profession at the expense of the bottom half imposes some strain...