Word: stress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether or not this cork of worldly callousness can bottle up misguided youthful patriotism in time of stress, whether or not this attitude can be maintained in the face of the feminine sneer and the clear, sweet notes of the bugle, in these points lies the test of its merit. It is unfortunate, perhaps, but all too true, that even in contemporary youth there is a fatal weakness for romance that can be fearfully strengthened overnight by the evil genius of war hysteria, a weakness that no amount of premeditated cynicism seems able to control. And there are those, ready...
...experience at the expense of any wider reference. 'Why have you not seen the importance of a religion that reaches out into all life and all relationships?' he asked. Continuing, he declared with deep feeling, 'If you are going to compromise with evil conditions while you stress personal religion exclusively, I tell you now I am not with...
...second paper of the Fall of 1903 a general editorial was printed for the benefit of incoming Freshmen. Here the stress is on the "after life" and its responsibilities...
...more refined, restrained, grammatical moods. Said he: "In the words of Lincoln, 'We cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow his memory, but we can be dedicated, we can be consecrated to our duty to our country in this time of stress and peril and emulate his example, and not run wild on a dream that the Government owes us a living...
...into compartments, wants to confine charged and uncharged particles, gravity and light within a single geometrical framework. Some time ago he concocted relativistic field equations in which particles were treated as "singularities" in the field. Dr. Silberstein carried this out for a two-particle problem, found that, though all stress between the particles disappeared, they remained stationary. Since either Newtonian or Einsteinian gravity would require them to fall together, this seemed to be a reductio ad absurdum. The New York tabloid Daily News headlines: SILBER TOPS EIN WHEN STEIN MEETS STEIN...