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Word: stress (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VETERANS OF FUTURE WARS | 3/18/1936 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Untouchable Lincoln | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editorials Written by Roosevelt as Crimson Head in 1903 Show Early Interest in Politics and Vocational Questions | 2/28/1936 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Springfield Spectacle | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Open for Repairs | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

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