Word: stress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bate said that the stress on "cultural history" is an attempt to give the field more focus and to prevent possible duplication by the History and English departments...
Depression-born, the New Deal, haunted by overproduction and "reckless" past expansion, could hardly be expected to put much stress on speeding up the growth of the economy as a whole. The New Deal, operating on the assumption that the economy was maturing, stressed the struggle between classes for a bigger piece of a limited pie. It took up the cudgels for the "have-nots," believing that an ever-larger Government was needed to overpower what Harry Truman loved to call "the special interests." Eisenhower's 1956 Economic Report assumes an ever-expanding pie. From that assumption it derives...
While the Administration may stress production of medium range and intercontinental missiles, it would be dangerous indeed if production of piloted aircraft should be cut. Pilots may someday be as obsolete as cavalrymen, but that day is far in the future. Even Soviet figures show a continued emphasis on fighters and long-range bombers while proceeding with research on missile warfare...
...report states that the individual professor ought to decide for himself whether or not he shall use the objective approach, but stress that it is important in controversial questions that the teacher's position be made known. There should throughout be a careful distinction between fact and opinion, and total objectivity on the part of the student should not be demanded in places where opinions are discussed...
...Life Stress and Essential Hypertension, Drs. Stewart Wolf, Philippe V. Cardon Jr., Edward M. Shepard and Harold G. Wolff, teachers of medicine and practicing physicians, bring together many of the elusive facts about Katherine's main trouble-a trouble shared by 6% of the U.S. population. Katherine suffered from essential hypertension, persistent high blood pressure without known cause...