Word: stress
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...with real conditions, optimistic of the future of intercollegiate athletics in America. As sure as water seeks its own level, athletics, if not trammelled by too much legislation, will assume the position they deserve, without hindering the progress of the individual athlete, upon whom Dr. Sargent lays so much stress...
This school preaches the gospel of education through self-help and lays stress on the importance of manual work in the development of intellectual and moral worth...
With the alliance once completed between the two countries, continued M. Tardieu, they were wrong in laying so much stress on political appearances, on shows of protocols, journeys, festivities, and banquets, in which France, as a democratic country, was at a disadvantage. This disadvantage became evident in political relations, and France allowed Russia to engage in political affairs in Manchuria, a policy injurious to both...
Horvitz made the first rebuttal for the negative, and laid great stress on the fact that the salaries of the clergy before the Act had not been a burden on the State. Raymond, making the second rebuttal, stated that the Church was now entirely controlled by the so-called religious associations, and that its condition was one of complete helplessness. The force of Haar's final rebuttal for the side was marred by a tendency to invective. He pointed out quite clearly, however, that the attitude of political however, that the attitude of political hostility adopted by the Church towards...
...game, and written as a rule by old players whose right to criticise history does not entirely justify. Doubtless only a deep interest in our team could spur industry into writing so many columns. But at best, comments to appear on Sunday morning must obviously be written under the stress of a defeat on Saturday. Ill-considered, destructive criticism in public prints, besides shocking our sense of loyalty due men who have done their best for us, has not brought us any nearer to victory...