Word: strains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...items-will be sold at auction on the front lawn, with proceeds going into a scholarship fund named for Daughter Mary, who died of polio in 1949. Having a last look around before flying off to winter in Mexico, the actress evinced few regrets. "The financial and spiritual strain has been too hard. There is so much-from so many years...
...decline of mental powers with age, the psychologists conclude, is more likely to result from the brain's getting too little rather than too much work. The brain simply does not get exhausted from overwork, though the individual may get worn out from emotional strain associated with his effort...
...Mental fatigue independent of emotional strain probably never has been measured," says Dr. Kerr. "It takes less energy to think the greatest thought ever thought than it takes to spit...
...time last year, when the offensive provision for a disclaimer affidavit was repealed, but officials must be wondering how they ever did without. Although the last decade has seen a sharp expansion of Harvard's own loan program, from less than $80,000 to $600,000 last year, the strain of expansion had become considerable. NDEA funds have been welcome relief, and the hope of larger appropriations in 1964-65 for the scholarship office is the nearest thing to a silver lining in a sky growing cloudy with next year's tuition increase...
...appear repeatedly. A large drawing entitled simply "Climbing Figures" shows one man hauling another up a vertical ladder. The bottom figure is bent nearly double. The top one, heavier, also leans forward, bracing his arms on the other's shoulders. The steepness of the ladder intensifies the impression of strain...