Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...figures, listening intently, now smiling secretly, now pursing his lips, ticking off the tempo with one brown suede shoe. When Desmond is through, Brubeck picks up the last idea and toys with it. He ripples along for a while in running melodic notes, builds up a sweet and lyrical strain, noodles it into a lowdown mood, adds a contrapuntal voice, suddenly lashes into a dissonant mirror-inversion, then subsides into a completely disconnected rhythm that momentarily garbles the beat. The listeners lose all contact with the original tune, but they can dimly perceive other things: a favorite forgotten song...
...effective a precept must be small. Following World War II Princton's enrollment increased by 50 percent and put la terrific strain on the faculty and on the precept. As President Doods puts it, "something went out of the system which Princeton doesn't want to lose again." Accordingly, the President's Committee expects to report in June on how to keep down the enrollment to a maximum of 2900 an still meet the huge increase in war-baby students who will apply by the 1960's. Princeton is proud of the amount of time its best professors...
...Dogtrotting regularly for the morning train and brisk walking to appointments keep the heart and lungs in trim for emergencies, reported Philadelphia's Dr. Burgess L. Gordon. "It's the habit of taking things easy most of the time and then placing a sudden strain on the body in an emergency that is dangerous...
...they get toothaches, they visit the clinic's complete dental facilities. But when they suffer eyestrain, they face the unhappy alternative of ruining their eyes or riding in to Boston on the MTA to see a specialist. As a result, many students delay a checkup until their original eye strain is worse...
...heart experts. Scores of university laboratories are helping the armed forces. Eager researchers are using themselves as guinea pigs for experiments in low-pressure chambers, on high-speed centrifuges and rocket-powered sleds. They are toiling up the Andes to find out how Peruvian Indians stand the strain of high altitude, breathing radioactive gases, and sweating in 122° chambers on low oxygen...