Word: stress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eddie Shore, battle-scarred veteran of the Boston Bruins Hockey team, believes that more stress should be laid on form and balance in the coaching of the Harvard hockey teams, following the example of the leading Canadian mentors...
...certain number was nonsense. Though he never succeeded in weaning her from unpunctual habits, his husbandly summation was a nutshell masterpiece: "I regard non-punctuality as bad manners. I don't expect you to be punctual; I know you are not capable of it, save under great stress. On the other hand, I don't expect to be told, when you are late, that it is my fault that you are hurrying." He had little better luck with her spelling: "But why in the name of God, despite all my warnings, continue to write 'happyness...
...Cooper following that irresistible path of least resistance and just about to settle down to the sweets of married life. As the story goes, one evening Cooper was reading aloud to his wife a novel of English society. And here the Vagabond would stress this ever-growing tendency of some of our modern novels: They often do for us just what they did for our budding genius. He said: "What stuff I believe I could write a better story myself...
...tank. Thus if a force of 100 lb. is brought against a piston one square inch in cross section, the force transferred through the liquid to a 1,000 sq. in. piston is 100,000 lb. The catch is that to make apparatus able to stand such a stress is a delicate, costly and patience-taxing business. If the reinforcement is imperfect or if the materials are not the best in the tiny arena where the gigantic crush is finally focused, steel is likely to bulge like butter. Squeezed by 300 tons per sq. in., some of the contraction...
...training new players, Mr. Cowles does not stress any particular type of game, but seeks to bring out the natural capabilities of the individual. If the candidate is naturally powerful, Coach Cowls teaches him the hard driving game; if he is well adapted physically to a chopping, tricky game, it is that type of play which Coach Cowles emphasized. Mr. Cowles's efficacy in thus developing along individual rather than standard lines is well substantiated by the records of previous teams...