Word: stress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yale undergraduate opinion favorable though not enthusiastic about Ivy League, but university officials in general are opposed and stress complications as difficulty in enforcing uniform entrance and eligibility requirements and scholarship grants. Yale athletic director Malcolm Farmer unprepared to comment yet, as is President James R. Angell but they were both opposed in the Fall of 1934, when President Gates of Pennsyl...
...League as an official entity would at once create a wholesome enthusiasm among the members of the institutions involved, which is usually lacking now except during championship seasons. Every game with a League opponent would naturally have an important bearing on the League championship with the result that the stress would be removed from the importance of having an undefeated season and anti-climactic games would also tend to be eliminated. Teams which did not win most of their games could still take an interest in their standing in the League...
...Stress in the competition will lie not only on excellence of photographic technique, but also on the ability to realize what makes a picture newsworthy. Work may be done with the cameras owned by the CRIMSON, but in some cases, particularly where candid work is involved, candidates familiar with their own cameras and miniature technique are urged to use their own apparatus...
...King is known to be strongly attached to Mrs. Simpson, to whom he admits he owes much. She has given him new confidence in himself, and it is said he now no longer views with aversion the idea of matrimony. But informed circles stress that if he does marry, the bride will not be Mrs. Simpson, although he will remain Mrs. Simpson's friend. . . . It is said Mrs. Simpson's sensible point of view received the approval of the Queen, who invited her to a luncheon at Marlborough House last week...
...square dance in the closing pageant, but otherwise Actress Bergner's linguistic eccentricities actually serve a useful purpose. They make Elizabethan usages seem amusingly exotic rather than obsolete. Her temperamental inability to stop wriggling is of less assistance, but even this, in a role which does not stress feminine allure, is less objectionable than it might be elsewhere. Shrewd, vivacious and versatile as ever, Actress Bergner probably brings the part to life as thoroughly as possible...