Word: emphasising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Snap-drills," that is, drills in which the band forms many words or figures quickly without emphasis on precision, form the backbone of its marching repertoire. As a result, the members perform many intricate formations without much formal practice. Once this trend reached the point that, in the seven minutes...
That contract (which, incidentally, I understand has not been signed by President Conant or either of the present heads of Yale and Princeton) was an effort by the Big Three to remove the grave over-emphasis that was being put on college football at the time.
Even now with the teams named, there are a hundred worries a haunting Harlow. An infinite number of minute variables can change the outcome of a football game, and there are the ever present uncertainties of what the opponent may have to unveil for the first time, where he will...
Jefferson Aquinas. Many historians have argued that U.S. democracy is the direct outgrowth of colonial Protestantism, with its emphasis on individual responsibility, but Dr. Maynard has a different theory: "Jefferson and the other Founding Fathers [considered] Locke's Two Treatises on Government as the Bible of the Revolution. . . . Now...
1) The number of Catholics under arms "exceeded population" their largely proportion because of "the the Catholic general emphasis upon . . . chastity may be supposed to have preserved a higher percentage of them from venereal disorders." (There are no official statistics to back up these claims.)