Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This performance, which looks intelligent, does not strain the brain of even the flightiest hen. If properly conditioned, she will go through her act in a department-store window, unconscious of traffic noise or applauding spectators. The only thing that matters to her is the reward, and she has been taught what...
Willis Wayde's fiber proves much tougher than the thinning Harcourt strain, and Bess would like to love him-but how can she really love this solemn youngster who reminds her of Uriah Heep? She drops him for a gentleman who plays good tennis and wears the right kind of white ducks. At that point, a chilling transformation begins in Willis. Slowly his eagerness turns to cold ambition, his good manners into a calculating weapon, his yen to be like the Harcourts into an unconscious drive to destroy them...
Multer's proposal, on the other hand, would cut deeply into Treasury revenue by allowing parents to deduct from taxable income the total college expenses of their children. The bill also would discourage the very industry that last year's law promotes. Few middleclass students would strain to help pay for college if their efforts only resulted in a smaller deduction for their parents. Not only would the bill make a student question the worth of working a few extra weeks in the summer; it would also encourage extravagance while attending college. Room rents, for example, are certainly a legitimate...
...said to be public, but the 100 seats in the dingy old courtroom were parceled out to hand-picked Communists, to the defendants' wives, and the lawyers. The court would not admit Djilas' aged mother, on the ground that the trial might prove too much of a strain for her. Nor would the court admit any of the 14 Western correspondents stationed in Belgrade; it was the publication of interviews with Djilas and Dedijer (in the Times of London, the New York Times and TIME) that all the fuss was about (TIME, Jan. 3). For 15 hours five...
John Martin gave Navy its one win in the 440 freestyle race. The failure, however, of Navy's aces Chuck Gray and Paul slack to beat a single Crimson swimmer testified to the strain on the visitors of travelling to Cambridge after a close loss to Dartmouth, 44-40, the day before...