Word: emphasising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Essential prerequisites for naval aviation training are two years of college credits ("or the equivalent"), three letters of recommendation, an age between 20 and 27. Next comes a stiff physical examination (with emphasis on eyes and heart) on which about 50% are turned down. A successful applicant becomes one of...
Intertwined in that Third Inaugural were two strands, expressing the domestic and the foreign purposes of the President and of this Administration. To balance his warning that "The hopes of the republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth" there was an equal emphasis that "In this...
Soft-spoken Alfred Landon, who ran to his own defeat almost without harsh words, had never made a more bitter charge than that. Last week voters, looking backward over the hectic days when they had made their decision between Roosevelt and Willkie-reviewing the arguments, remembering the atmosphere-found that...
He deplored the fact that the lectures came from the reading material. Perhaps it would be wise to consider that the reading is sufficiently important to require emphasis. The teachers' lack of insight and their inability to produce interest is thrown up to us. The editor cannot reasonably expect the...
This put new emphasis on the roundabout northern way-into Vladivostok, by rail to Chita or Verkhne Udinsk, thence by mechanical and animal caravan down the Mongolian desert to China, 3,700 miles in all from Vladivostok to Chungking. Links in the route were not exactly new; their origins as...