Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went on was hastily reported at the time, but not so frankly and fully as three newsmen told it in books out last week.* Though the authors may not have intended them to be, their accounts are a revealing documentation of the harum-scarum behavior of the press under stress. "The whole thing," wrote Cornelius Ryan (then of the London Telegraph, now of TIME), "was a cross between a Marx Brothers movie, Hellzapoppin and an Irish wake...
...stress laid by General Education upon essays was largely approved by undergraduates in the program. Over a third felt that essays should be substituted for all hour exams...
American delegates returning from the Moscow Conference privately stress the fact that any U.S. "wobbling" on the Truman Doctrine will cause the countries threatened by Moscow to lose confidence in the U.S., and will also invite the Russians to further aggressive moves. For the moment, Moscow is rather quiescent. It has made a significant (and long overdue) concession on Korea (see FOREIGN NEWS), and is concentrating on an economic effort to get the most that it can out of eastern and central Europe...
...when War Memorial plans were discussed at a meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs. At that time opinion favored a functional memorial. Three suggestions were made: a new medical center, a student activities center, and a music center. Dr. Arlie V. Bock's plans for the medical center laid stress on psychological aid to veterans, thus making the project suitable for a war memorial...
...arrangement which is rapidly becoming unique in times of increasing stress on research has leading professors, many of them ranking men in their fields, teaching undergraduates the fundamentals of chemical phenomena...