Word: stress
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...certainly did themselves much credit in the face of the fact that the judges might possibly have been influenced, though not prejudiced, in favoring the side of the question most evidently the right and just one. Possibly the mistake made by the Pennsylvania debaters consisted in placing too much stress upon oratorical expression and not enough upon the matter of the argument...
Particular stress was laid by the speaker on the importance of the club to the church. A firm and closely related organization was needed, the speaker said, to place the tenets of the Catholic religion properly before the student body. After this appeal for consistent effort a short sketch of the work accomplished during the last quarter century in the religious life of the country was given and the address closed with an outline of what might be hoped for during the coming years...
...story is "Drumtochty" and many of the characters in the "Bonnie Brier Bush" and "Days of Old Lang Svne" reappear in its pages. The author tells the story of the strong and simple love of Carmichael, a Covenanting Minister, and Kate Carnegie, a girl of Jacobite descent, and the stress between their mutual love on the one side, and their political and religious differences on the other, furnishes material for a story full of delightful situations in which the author moves the reader's sympathies and appeals to his sense of humor. Those, however, who came to it expecting...
...proposed system would comparatively discourage the getting of general views.- (a) The present system lays stress on such views.- (1) It demands review of semi-annual periods.- (b) The proposed system could not lay stress on such views.- (1) It could not adequately test them, as was shown above...
...consists of two coils; one inside called the primary which is a piece of wire only a few feet long; another on the outside called the secondary which is about a mile long. By passing a strong current through the shorter wire and breaking the current a great electric stress and a high force is obtained. Approximately the 10,000 cells would produce 10,000 volts but the three Ruhmkoff coils used in the experiments last night produced approximately 50,000 volts...