Word: emphasising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The first report will cover University admissions policy on foreign students, with emphasis on their present geographical distribution. Means will be sought to increase the proportion of students coming directly from abroad, especially from Europe and Asia, he stated.
This all too brief history is furnished by the Encyclopedia Britannica, and brings us to the present day, with the emphasis in great centers of learning no longer on the problems of right and wrong, but rather on the problems of right and left. Let us look at conservative Yale...
Opening in December, 1902, when the Supreme Court Justice arrived in Washington to assume his duties on the bench during the Big Stick rule of the first Roosevelt, it concludes with the precedent-breaking visit of President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt to the ninety-two year old, retired jurist. During...
But to prosperous, cultured city Friends, surrounded by the institutions of conventional Protestantism, the country cousins began to look increasingly like religious radicals. Under the influence of the Wesleyan "Evangelical Movement," with its emphasis on Scriptural authority, the Fall of Man and the Atonement of Christ, many (but not all...
Koestler's deadpan, newspaper style of writing, with its emphasis upon understatement, suggests impartiality and permits objective writing, as in the courtroom and 1939 riot chapters, to gain great emotional force and a continual atmosphere of tension. Unfortunately, Koestler's people disappear just as they begin to become interesting as...