Word: strains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...realize I should be grateful to the members of the Corporation for all the soul-searching and agonizing moral battles they so kindly tell us they have undergone, but some parts of their statement strain the limits of my credulousness. For example, they tell us that the best way to influence conditions in South Africa is not to "cut and run," but to redirect the policies of corporations. The logical extension of such an argument is that Harvard should buy even more South African stock so that more corporations come under the influence of men with such high moral...
...later, Mr. B set Gelsey the stringent task of dancing Theme and Variations. He made his earlier version even more intricate and Gelsey rose to the challenge. But the strain on her overtaxed system was considerable. She developed tendinitis and began thinking the unthinkable: "I love dancing more than anything in the world, but I cannot dance with this pain...
Immediately upon beginning the practice I noticed improvements on the subjective level. Life was generally more fun. There was less of the strain and exhaustion I had often felt previously, and more energy, clarity and creativity. On a more objective level, my productivity at work took a jump, largely, it seemed, because of an improved ability to see the broad context as well as to concentrate on the details, both necessary to produce the maximum result. This being my experience, I naturally wanted to understand more about how such a simple procedure practiced two brief periods daily could have such...
...Dennis L. Kasper, assistant professor of Medicine at the Medical School, and Dr. Carol J. Baker, a former post-doctoral fellow at Harvard, successfully demonstrated their vaccine's ability to produce antibodies against the major strain of Group B infections without harmful side effects in people, Kasper said yesterday...
...Chosen People, the Messiah (what a mischievous and tragic notion!), etc.-although I know and respect the ethical content of the Jewish view of these ideas. It is enough that I am and my people are. To the orthodox, metadox and paradox Jews, the polydox are a welcome new strain...