Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they are more forward-looking. This year, believing that Dewey lost in 1948 because he did not make enough speeches, they have worked out punishing schedules for both candidates. On his Western tour, Stevenson made 21 speeches in eight days, and before it was over he was showing the strain...
...liberal arts college plays a necessary role in American life, says Mrs. Schumacher, since it gives the student the cultural education which family life in this country too seldom offers. "The American father is under a terrific strain to keep up with the high standard of living. Fathers here work too hard. They haven't time to teach their children, to show them a book of Conama paintings, as ps outs can in the more leisurely life of Eu ope. The college here must waken up the student to the basic appreciation of arts which make for greater enjoyment...
...electees of the true convention, while the Blenes group based its case on the fact that the National Committee's call came to them. Once the attorneys were through, the Committee began a raucus internal argument. Eastvold repeated his declaration, and the member from Rhode Island took up the strain. He first suggested that the call was unimportant in this case since the National Committeewoman from Puerto Rico was married to one of the Rump delegates, and then harrangued his colleagues on Gate's part in the deal--accusing the General Counsel of personally arranging yet another "steal." A bellow...
...stiff muscles rubbed down in the locker room. At 2 o'clock, before a gallery now grown to some 8,000, Jack and Al teed off again. Some openly doubted that the older man could weather the afternoon round. Al Mengert, though wet-browed under the strain, went one up over Westland on the ninth hole to lead for the first time...
...particular combination of drugs may work well against one kind of disease-causing microbe and be useless against another closely related microbe. Fortunately, the exceptional cases in which drugs from Groups I and II should be used together are those which have often proved hardest to treat-where a strain of bacteria shows extreme resistance to a widely used antibiotic like streptomycin. But even in these cases laboratory tests have proved better than guesswork...