Word: stress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quadrangle in 1951, Brown's fraternity men were spread our over the Providence hillside in dilapidated buildings with leaky roofs, faulty plumbing, and often inadequate study facilities. Food was purchased in small, expensive lots and varied considerably in quality. But most important in view of the College's stress on close community life, the members of the different fraternities and those who lived in dorms did not mingle freely enough...
...view of the significance of teaching as a goal of graduate students, many members of the faculty of Arts and Sciences feel that the school should more thoroughly stress the development of future teachers...
Some significant developments have come about in the past few years to help develop future teachers. Seminar courses now stress more heavily the delivery and defense of research reports. Teaching fellows are carefully selected for their abilities as potential teachers, rather because of financial exigencies alone...
...spreading with new vigor among Catholics. The theological foundations of Mary-veneration were laid in the first century A.D. In the Catacombs, Rome's persecuted Christians painted pictures of the Virgin, emphasizing her sanctity. Thereafter, a long line of saints-among them Irenaeus, Ambrose, Jerome and Augustine-laid stress on her sinlessness. In a poem, St. Ephrem (300-379) had Mary addressing God: "Let Heaven uphold me in its embrace, because I am more honored than it. Heaven is only your throne, it isn't your mother. How much more a mother of a king...
...Failure of a metal after repeated straining. Small cracks, which sometimes start at tool marks, sharp indentations or other "stress raisers," spread through metal until it breaks. Sufficient strength, correct design and careful fabrication can prevent such failures...