Word: stress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife could be useful in offsetting the campaign efforts of an able Republican wife. Mrs. Robert A. Taft (see p. 9). Said Mrs. Roosevelt by radio: "I am very much disturbed . . . more women than men write to me suggesting that Communism may be gaining a real hold. There is stress laid upon what to fight against rather than what we should be trying to accomplish. I deplore that attitude...
...most countries extremist parties, left or right, usually show their greatest gains when times are hard. In evenminded Belgium, however, this trend is often reversed. Last week, a time of international if not national stress, the Belgian electorate voted overwhelmingly for the moderate parties in the municipal elections held every six years. Heaviest winners were the Socialist and Catholic Parties, supporters of Premier Paul Henri Spaak. Even the pro-French Liberal Party, thought to be losing its hold, showed wide gains. Heaviest losers were the Communists, Rexists and Flemish Nationalists. The pro-Fascist Rexists blamed their losses on the fact...
From Progressive Kilpatrick: Should our schools make central the informal learning of experience and activity work, placing much less stress on formal, systematic assignments, discipline and obedience, and instead seeking to develop pupil initiative, discipline and responsibility as well as mastery of basic subjects by encouraging pupils to show initiative and develop responsibility, with teachers, while in control, serving primarily as guides...
...Norden-flycht, brought hot food and coffee to his desk, occasionally led him outdoors for a walk and fresh air. His earliest broadcast was at 5 a. m., his latest at 11 p. m. After each talk he received a batch of letters. Their gist: in times of stress, listeners prefer conclusions and even bias to straight factual reporting...
...will concentrate on conditioning, timing, and passing this year," Hodder said. Conditioning was held to be one of the weakest links of the Stubbs regime, and evidently the new coach will stress...