Word: stress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole the President's report is a calm, rational, long-range approach to the University and its manifold problems. And that is all that it should be; that is what good leadership should always be doing in times of stress which may induce short-sightedness in the less able...
...organized labor, the supposed core of any contemporary rebellion. Nor is there the same widespread discontent that has accompanied other third parties. Not since the Republicans rose from obscurity to power on the issue of slavery has there been a strong third party movement except in times of economic stress. Traditionally third parties have been able to make a good showing only when the two major groups refused even to recognize that new factors had been injected into the political equation. At the present time both parties seem aware of the issues that are raised by the Wallace adherents...
...spiritual teaching was no less exacting for all that. "Hold this therefore as a certain truth," he once wrote, "that the heresy of heresies is a worldly spirit." The Serious Call, says McNeill, has been criticized for its "one-sided emphasis on good works" and "lack of stress on Scripture." But it influenced many. No less a critic than Dr. Samuel Johnson called it "the finest piece of hortatory theology in any language...
With an average student backing of about 65 percent for its specific wheat saving measures, the Council felt that the 1500 undergraduates voting were not sufficiently in favor of the proposals to warrant further Council stress. Voluntary saving, possibly, directed by individual House committees, was urged by the group...
First move, however, is up to the Council, which will decide tonight whether the two-to-one vote in favor of the wheat conservation plan merits further stress...