Word: emphasising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oklahoma provided the Court with the opportunity to hand down this ruling by denying a Negro girl admission to the University of Oklahoma Law School. The decision leaves the State of Oklahoma with the alternatives of admitting the student to the law school by the beginning of the next term...
Modern psychiatrists, Mowrer said, have been a long while catching up. Freud's emphasis on repressed sexual energy helped put them on the wrong track. Human anxiety, reported Mowrer, is the result of dammed-up moral force, rather than dammed-up libido; as this force seeps out into a...
William Law (1686-1761), who wrote his Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life largely for the guidance of those who are "free from the necessity of labor or employments." The son of a British grocer, he managed to live most of his life among the well-to-do...
The Dreamer. Bob Mize sees it differently: "If I had to give up the spiritual side of the Home, I'd just as soon give it all up." For 15 minutes in the morning and 10 at night the boys attend compulsory chapel services. And the spiritual effort is...
Such an approach may be soul-satisfying to the magazine's sponsors; but it is doubtful if it will attract any readers who do not already agree with the premises assumed by the AYD. Geoff White and Bill Labov in their misleading account of the Club 100 incident of last...