Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difficulties will begin with the rocket launching. The acceleration pressure of 8 g. [eight times gravity's pull] will make breathing difficult. His respiratory muscles will strain to overcome the crushing force, and breathing will become irregular. The heart will double its normal rate. The instruments before his eyes fade from view in a brown haze. The feet and arms are now difficult to move because they are eight times heavier than normal. Consciousness clouds, and for a moment he will wait in heavy, silent oppression. Weightless World. Then his body will become suddenly light, as the rocket burns...
Canada's longtime aim in regulating immigration is to increase the population without diluting the British strain below its present 48%. This policy has no warmer proponent than Immigration Minister Ellen Fairclough, a member of the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire and a descendant of a family of United Empire Loyalists who fled the American Revolution to remain under British rule in Canada. So to Minister Fairclough, the 1958 immigration statistics were frankly disturbing. For the first time since World War II, Britons failed to contribute the largest share of immigrants; they were outnumbered by Italians...
Outside of the undergraduate Department of Architectural Sciences the Departments of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and City and Regional Planning are concerned with the professional training of graduate students. Facilities currently are under heavy strain since 220 students are enrolled in GSD while Hunt and Robinson Halls can really accommodate a maximum of only 200. Plans are being made for a campaign to enlarge the physical plant of the school. No increase in the enrollment is foreseen, according to Dean Sert, in order to preserve the close knit character of the small school...
What College Bowl suffers from is a sophomoric strain on the basketball analogy. A referee's shrill whistle signals half time and the commercial. A student audience is encouraged to cheer each correct answer. After Northwestern was defeated by Georgetown a few weeks back, Northwestern students hanged in effigy the quiz team's coach, Dean of Students James Currie McLeod. Mused McLeod: "Who knows-I may wind up like Terry Brennan...
...side remarks about the dictator of the Nile that were meant to wound and were bound to sting. "President Nasser," said Khrushchev, "is a rather young man and rather hotheaded, and he took upon himself more than his stature permitted. He shouldn't do it. He might strain himself...