Word: emphasising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The problems of "spring riots," female guests in the dormitories, and inter-dormitory athletics were discussed. Emphasis was placed on the serious nature of "public disturbances" and the rule that the more presence of a student in a disturbance or unauthorized demonstration may result in disciplinary action."
"In line with this emphasis, the State Department has extended travel grants to a considerable number of distinguished journalists, novelists, and others. These visits not only provide the leaders of thought and opinion in our neighboring republics with an opportunity to correct many one sided and distorted views of our...
Following the present fad of humorizing homicide (Arsenic and Old Lace, Mr. and Mrs. North), Topper Returns puts the emphasis on nonsense. Some of it is just tiresome repetition of one of the cinema's pet tricks-an invisible person startling the other characters by smoking a cigaret, rowing...
Years later, recognizing that many men were only mildly interested in writing learned dissertations on specialized subjects, the Faculty introduced a system of "Plan B tutorial." Under this scheme students were expected to place more emphasis on course-work, utilizing tutorial for general reading to fill in the gaps.
Sometimes Editor Wertenbaker seems to beat his breast a little too fiercely over the past sins of Yankee imperialism. But this is a question of emphasis. To critics who fear that the new doctrine of hemispheric solidarity may supplant the Monroe Doctrine, he gives a flat no. "What was done...