Word: strains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue for the GSAS is the squeeze between a general tightening of the University's budget and a severe strain on our investment in scholarships caused by the loss of these Federal funds. There just aren't more resources to take up the slack," Jones said...
...decreased significantly over the past two years in his department and that trainee programs had fallen to almost nothing. He indicated that research grants for the Physics Department had remained constant but said that inflationary pressures and the necessity of supporting students out of research funds had caused a strain...
...disapproving parents and to New York Lawyer John Quinn, who ran interference for the publication of Eliot's work in the U.S. Still, they are laced with references to Vivien's illnesses, constant moves and removes in search of better air or care. Eventually the strain proved too much. Eliot went off to a psychiatrist in Lausanne for three months in 1921, dropping Vivien in Paris and leaving their cat, "a very good mouser," with Poet Richard Aldington. He needed to learn, he explained, "to be calm when there is nothing to be gained by worry." When...
...strain of consistency runs through the ideological meanderings of SDS. Its members were almost exclusively college students who were primarily concerned with campus and campus-related issues--student power and free speech, ROTC on campus, black studies, university expansion, and in general, the symbiotic relationship of the colleges and universities to an American government that repressed rebellions in the ghettos and revolutions overseas...
Army, largely of unknown strength, does pose a threat to an overconfident squad. Playing at West Point gives the Cadets a three point advantage each game, according to Barnaby, and travelling is an additional strain on Harvard...