Word: strains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suicides per 100,000. In the age group from 15 to 19, the rate is 4 per 100,000, up from 2.4 a decade ago, and is the third-ranking cause of death (after accidents and cancer). Among college students, presumably because of the stress of work and the strain of readjusting values, suicide ranks second as cause of death and is about half again as frequent as in the non-college population of the same...
Suspecting that Australian mosquitoes now carry a relatively harmless strain of myxomatosis virus that imparts immunity to more deadly strains in the rabbits it infects, the geneticist has been seeking-another virus carrier. But his search has been plagued by misfortune. Impressed by the European flea, which has successfully spread myxomatosis over the Continent, he had some 12,000 fleas shipped to Australia. Only nine of the little pests withstood the trip...
Christianity is not likely to survive by excessive literalism or by the idolization of outdated doctrinal formulas. The experience of church history is that every definition is a spiritual agony-man's ever impossible attempt to capture infinite mystery in finite words. "Words strain," as T. S. Eliot wrote, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still...
...life: born Domenikos Theotokopoulos on the island of Crete in 1541, he spent his young manhood in Venice and Rome, then moved to Toledo, where he died old, honored, contentious, debt-ridden and proud. Though the rest of the drama appears to be based on hysterical inaccuracies, the strain in Spain lies mainly in Actor Ferrer, who portrays the temper of genius with a flatness more appropriate to Toledo, Ohio. Dressed in custom-tailored smocks and tunics, Mel looks like nothing so much as a paid escort en route to the Beaux-Arts Ball...
...collected 2,350 samples, inoculated them with rusts and put them through rugged environmental tests in hothouses and in the fields. The most promising 100 samples were sent to the U.S. Agriculture Department; along with 4,000 resistant selections from other countries they were subjected to 264 and other strains of rust. From the fierce competition, a strain of wild oats that Wahl had found near Israel's Mount Carmel emerged the winner...