Word: duress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amid the squalor and duress of Britain's most "depressed area" (the South Wales mining district) a brilliant young physician, Andrew Manson, took his first medi-cal appointment. He scorned the mumbo-jumbo of outworn textbooks, went to the unprofessional lengths of helping dynamite a sewer at dead of night because he knew it responsible for a typhoid epidemic. Again & again in his crusading zeal "never to take anything for granted'' in Medicine he was thwarted by the indifference of senile or mediocre colleagues. An original thesis on the causes of lung infection in miners...
...Sunday to comply with the shut-down order. Nothing happened. Forthwith the colonel posted troopers at the gates with instructions to allow no one to enter, though anyone was free to leave. Pennsylvania R.R. was forbidden to deliver inbound shipments. After an eleven-hour siege Bethlehem officially surrendered, under "duress" and still vigorously protesting the illegality of the Governor's action. The company was allowed to keep 900 men for maintenance and minimum operations in a few key divisions...
Walter Duranty, whose brilliant correspondence from Moscow to the New York Times is written under duress of another kind, pounded impatiently on the floor with his cane and repeated that writers could not write honestly under facism...
...course of compiling this material, criticism of courses-both adverse and favorable, constructive and destructive-inevitably arises. Since this criticism records the voice of undergraduate opinion, speaking freely and without duress from above or below, it furnishes a barometer for the faculty to judge their effectiveness in teaching that the College cannot obtain in any other...
...estimated at $5,000,000, was upheld by the Wisconsin Supreme Court yesterday afternoon. This decision defeats the claims of two half-uncles and a half-aunt of the former Mrs. Lucius W. Nieman to this gift on the grounds that she was "not of sound mind and under duress when she made the will...