Word: emphasising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The greatest limitation of Rusk's book is its lack of enthusiasm and feeling. It shows Emerson as far more practical, sometimes calculating, and much less steadily conscious of his purpose in life than has been believed. One great discovery concealed or slurred over by previous biographers is that...
The producers have shifted the emphasis of Ring Lardner's famous short story so that it is not Midge Kelly, but the "boxing game," that comes out the villain. In the original, Kelly knocks down his crippled brother and his mother, and throws a fight in the first two pages...
But the Pope, in his speech to the employers, laid quite a different emphasis. "Why not," he asked, "while there is still time, put things in order ... in a way to secure the . . . [employer] against unjust suspicion and the . . . [workers] against illusions which will not be long in becoming social...
The difference between the two fields, Chemistry and Physics, and Physics and Chemistry seems to be sufficiently great to attract eight freshmen to the former and only one to the latter. According to Kennedy, the difference lies only in emphasis.
While guest conducting, Munch has placed a great deal of emphasis on French music, but this is perfectly understandable in view of the fact that since 1944, France's Orchestre National has played more works of living Americans than all the orchestras of America combined have played of living French...