Word: stress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speakers should be advised to stress their objections to opposing candidates for the substantial reason that they are Democrats...
...likewise elected. And, in the Fourth Congressional District, U. S. Representative William J. Sears lost out to Tradition as embodied in the 43-year-old daughter of the late William Jennings Bryan, Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, "The Little Commoner." A War nurse, Chautauqua lecturer, energetic personality, Mrs. Owen laid stress upon her own abilities rather than her father's fame...
...TIME representative I have for five years stressed your fairness, omniscience. Your article on dirty Buchmanites (May 28) is utterly unfair, strangely ignorant; your quotation from a "Princeton song" a gratuitous insult. Members of the First Century Christian Fellowship (the movement to which you no doubt refer) are not correctly called Buchmanites; there is no mystery about the Morning Watch-it consists of prayer, Bible reading, religious meditation; there is specifically Biblical authority for the stress laid on "confession" (James 5:16). Wholehearted surrender to the Will of God is a fundamental principle of this group...
...female choruses enunciate so clearly that even the patter is distinct. But it is Since, the lyvles are so essential a part of these plays. It is most pleasant to be able to pick them up without effort, and with this in mind the producer has apparently put great stress upon this phase...
...value of these transatlantic excursions is rather less widely accepted now than at the time of their introduction, for, like so many of the lofty ideas accepted without question under the stress of circumstances, they have been viewed askance of late by the new philosophers of pessimism. Whatever the final verdict, there is one serious lack in the awards instituted shortly after the war, that is being to some extent replaced. The concession to the spirit of 1918 in omitting the countries recently enemies of the United States needs no longer to be made, and the number of American students...