Word: stress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...want to stress again the fact that you committed a very grave error in geography when you defined as the Basque country the southwest part of France. You failed to mention those Basques residing in Spanish territory from time immemorial, and who before Premier-Dictator Primo de Ribera came into power had many special powers and privileges which are called in Spanish "fueros." The Basques in Spain occupy quite a large territory called "las provincias vascon English, the Basque provinces, is one of these Basques...
School book histories of the American Revolution lay great stress upon such striking items as the sparks struck out by Paul Revere's horse or the Bunker Hill order about not firing until the whites of the enemy's eyes were visible. Financial affairs, being less emotional, are less noticed, but still there is usually some mention of Robert Morris, who is described as having lent large sums of money to the Continental Government and later spending many years in a debtor's jail. Last week in Manhattan the Morris story was gone into in some detail, owing...
...explanation is simple Mr. and Mrs. Smith move with the crowd. In normal times the crowd assumes a normal attitude toward war. War is not only wrong, it is absurd. In times of stress the crowd assumes an abnoraml attitude toward war. It ceases to question. It becomes hysterical. It becomes a mob. But a mob, because it is hysterical is temporarily affected with a species of insanity. Mr. and Mrs. Smith, the fire-eaters of 1927, were as insane as the responsible citizens who are parties to a lynching party. As the Black Plague formely swept...
...fire of his famed spellbinding prowess. He urged that warlike "reprisals" be taken against Britain, demanded that pressure be brought on the Chinese Nationalists to proclaim a Chinese Soviet Republic, and generally flayed Dictator Stalin for not pushing with sufficient energy the Communist program of world revolution. Amid the stress of last week, the Comintern dared not antagonize Comrade Trotzky further than by passing a stiff resolution of censure against...
...Stress Hour Tests...