Word: stress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...principal difficulty that faces engineers in the construction of steeples is the wind stress. Although the girden seem scarcely able to support the stock pole, the chief concern is to make all joints form the ground up so tight that the wind will not be able to move the spire. Slender towers present little difficult since they expose a more or less rounded figure to the wind which meets more resistance in square buildings. Contrary to popular opinion the sway of even the tallest modern buildings does not exceed an inch. Experiments, in which a plumb line was dropped from...
...whole the book is one of great merit. Many of its conclusions may well stand unchanged after future years have lifted the world out of the present morass. Because it constitutes a fine record, and an exposition of the history of 1931, and particularly on account of the underlying stress of the fact that the United States is vitally concerned in world affairs, and that our country must definitely trim its sails to the international wind currents, the authors of "World Affairs" have inaugurated a series of books that represent a distinct service...
...Britain's] murderers are for the most part made up of poor devils who in some way have succumbed to the stress of life. ... In the United States the ebb of the Prohibition tide might even cause a situation far more desperate than its flow. You cannot throw some thousands of well-armed and ruthless criminals out of profitable employment with impunity...
...only Prefect Apostolic, Monsignor Turquetil has not been coarsened by taking fishes' snouts in his mouth or by eating raw meat when fuel was lacking. He is urbane, worldly even. He is reported to have invented a new system of bridge-bidding but he insists that "too much stress is being laid on this side of my affairs." On his way to Montreal last month Monsignor Turquetil watched four men playing bridge. One bid a spade His partner, with four aces and three kings, passed. "I took one look at their hands,'' said the Arctic Bishop, "and then, overwhelmed...
Against this background of decorative chaos, Shanghai Express is refreshingly vital. The story is simple and somewhat absurd. It is the tale of a cosmopolitan group thrown together on the long run from Peiping to Shanghai and of their evolution as individuals under the stress and strain of revolutionary China. To know the plot is not necessary for the appreciation of the picture, as the dramatic importance lies entirely in the development of the characters...