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Even so, many of the things that happened to Wright and Olgivanna seem inordinately severe.

) when Krim says mine was as severe a critical-intellectual, environment as can be imagined, he is off his rocker.

It would be the most severe reprisal, short of declared war, that the United States could invoke against Castro.

The movement of events is so fast, the pace so severe, that an attempt to peer into the future is essential if we are to think accurately about the present.

Only the independent art schools, that is, those not connected with any university or college, receive severe and separate investigation before accreditation by the various regional organizations.

Not only were the court costs prohibitive, but I was subjected to crippling fines, in addition to usurious interest on the unpaid `` debts '' which the government claimed that Metronome and I owed -- a severe financial blow.

I tried my hardest, with little help, may I say, from my husband and leading man, but somehow the outside pressures were too severe.

The cooling requirements are particularly severe at the anode.

It is evident that the requirements imposed by these effects upon any one detergent constituent acting alone are severe.

A high-protein diet, calcium lactate supplements, and norethandrolone failed to change the skeletal complaint or the severe muscle weakness.

But it places a severe strain on the administrative resources ( already burdened in other ways ) of a widely dispersed, poor and largely illiterate population.

According to the theory proposed, this is a consequence of the severe condition of perceived threat that persists unabated for the anxious child in an ambiguous sort of school environment.

Throughout the work of the later ninth century a calm, severe serenity displays itself.

The severe yet harmonious vases of the previous fifty years, the Strong Geometric style of the late ninth century, display as firm a mastery of the principles underlying Geometric pottery ; ;

Assonance seems nearly as severe a curb, although in a celebrated passage William of Malmesbury declares that A Song Of Roland was intoned before the battle commenced at Hastings.

Less severe thermal treatment as by blanching or scalding serves to inactivate enzymes.

Off-flavor is a less severe problem with the radiopasteurization of meats, but problems of commercial acceptability remain.

Four washing test procedures are established, varying in severity from very severe to very mild, and are intended to cover the range of practical washing from commercial procedure to hand washing.

Ruthlessness at this time can be a very severe shock to the bride, both physically and psychologically.

She had -- he informed her -- kidney trouble, liver trouble, and a severe female disorder.

At twelve minutes after five on the morning of Wednesday, April 18, 1906, San Francisco was shaken by a severe earthquake.

Drifts usually occurred in winter in an effort to escape the severe cold winds, but it could also occur in summer as the result of lack of water or grass because of a drought, or as an aftermath of a stampede.

His saloon was a meetin' place for influential Wyoming cattlemen, and one year durin' a severe blizzard, when his herd-owner customers were wearin' long faces, he said, `` Cheer up, boys, whatever happens, the books won't freeze ''.

If this trade should be resumed, the habitants who had come to be farmers or artisans, and soldiers discharged from the army, must be hardened to the severe life of coureurs de bois.

-- The Gov. Jimmie H. Davis administration appears to face a difficult year in 1961, with the governor's theme of peace and harmony subjected to severe stresses.