Word: stress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second floor, said Public Buildings Commissioner W. Englebert Reynolds, stays up only "by force of habit." Some of its beams carry ten times their normal stress. The marble grand staircase is in danger of collapse. The heavy (70 Ibs. to the square foot) frescoed ceiling of the East Room has a six-inch sag, had to be shored up with timbers to prevent its caving...
...Examinations," he said, "are satisfactory in the qualities they demand. They stress memory and reproduction of course content. This does not encourage original scholars; the student forgets what he crams...
...Soap opera, which whips up its lather with crocodile tears, is replaced by readings of continued stories that stress humor and happiness in U.S. home life...
psychosomatic medicine. Study of the relation of bodily disorders and diseases to emotional stress...
Conference speakers will includes Mrs. Brower Blackall, national drive chairman, and Mr. Horace W. Frost, president of the Radcliffe Alumnae Association. They will stress the urgency of success in the campaign and will offer practical suggestions...