Word: stress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...place of accident. Wrong was the quoted age. The accident produced a jagged 36-stitch end-of-a-pipe wound in the right hand, not a broken collar bone. He did not say, when offered a drink, "Sir, I am a Prohibitionist, dead or alive" but, thinking clearly under stress as consulting engineers must, and considering that his heart had just been through a terrific strain he replied: "Thanks, but I'd rather have some water." A nondrinker, yet without scruples on the point aside from the question of health, and open-minded to the point of anti-Prohibition...
...meant not a history of exclusively critical writings, than which nothing could be more fruitless, but a consideration of representative books at first hand, with occasional reference to the greater literary critics, and much open discussion in class. In essence this course would be problematical and inquiring, placing its stress on the formation of sound individual opinion rather than on detailed knowledge of any sort. It would be of most service to those taking it in hope of arriving at a critical formulation of their own, if its closest inquiry were into contemporary theories and problems. The success of this...
Baron von Tippelskirch is a graduate of Oxford, and was German Consul at Shanghai during the war. He has had excellent opportunities to look at religion from a strongly international point of view. In his lecture he will stress the social and religious situation in modern Germany, showing how political conditions have influenced religious life in that country...
...means in France, the inclusion of rebellious Communists and Socialists in the ranks. Nothing pleases German officers more than to know that Reds and Pinks are prevented from enlisting in the Reichswehr (even should they wish to do so) by a "fitness test" which lays quite as much stress on political fitness as on physical...
...Castle, the final speaker attempted to stress the fact that politics play no part in the department of State. In concluding, he outlined rather briefly the many achievements of President Hoover, during the past four years...