Word: stress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purely religious. There is also the very strong if not major element of personal rivalry?"dog eat dog" ?among Mexico's many men of the sword. It is of the very first significance that, last week, neither the government nor Chief Rebel Gilberto Valenzuela laid any great stress on such appeals to principle, credulity or reason as helped to win the Great War. Any fight in Mexico is, at bottom, just dogfight, though the triumph of General Calles would mean the continuance of his Socialist Anti-Catholic policies. During the week General Calles' so-called "puppet," President Portes...
...Storm and Stress' Movement in German Literature", Professor Silz, Sever...
...regard to the determination of stress and the development of more resistant metals, Mr. Stone said that whereas in 1910 the greatest stress which could be allowed in a generator was 10,000 pounds per square inch, at present it is 20,000 pounds per square inch. "This improvement," he said, is due to the work of metallurgists and to the photoelastic determination of stress. This latter method, which is very complex, involves the rotation by mechanical stress, of a light beam in a plane of polarization. The effect is similar to that of double refraction. Straining the medium between...
...those who feel that the present show includes an unnecessary number of works of the "representative" type, it will be of interest that the next one will lay greater stress upon the "interpretative" school of artists...
...first quarter of the contest was loosely played and at the end of it each team had piled up 12 points. Hebron depended on a fast offense, laying little stress on its defense; consequently Harvard had jumped into a six point lead when the whistle blew for the intermission...