Word: stress
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Special stress is laid upon the necessity of strictly observing the following extracts from the Army Regulations...
...request has been sent to the War Department for recognition and for an officer to instruct the men, but under the stress of war conditions the Department has been too busy to attend to the matter...
...worldwide conditions of supply and demand, and expressing them in prices, the speculators make it safe for farmers, millers, and others to rely on the prices as guides for further production. This "directive function" of speculation is perhaps most important of all. A fifth point, which should receive greater stress than is usually given it, is that speculators, by making an active market, make it safe for banks to lend on goods that are being carried over to a later season--make bank loans "liquid." The speculator also, by putting up a "margin," protects the banks from risk in financing...
President Lowell, who spoke after Dean Yeomans, laid stress upon the need of team-play, and the development of morale. "This morale of the army," he said, "depends upon the character of its officers. And character cannot be developed in a moment. It comes through a life of right thinking and right doing, through the exercise of patience and self-control. To accomplish this end, all training is vital. Without training there can be no officers, and the army will be an unready mob to be slaughtered like sheep...
...have learned to differentiate between man and man and the most primitive tribes have learned that sort of selection--are all beings equally regarded and equally admired by their fellows. In any social scheme where relations become more complex there is liable to be error of judgment. Men place stress on external appearances, they judge others by their possessions, or some fancied distinctiveness of birth. At Harvard, as at other places frequented by civilized man, those external appearances are apt to mislead the calmest judgment, and give false value to the characters of some men who seem greater than they...