Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army's plan for military training, now under consideration by the presidential commission, is opposed by the SDA, which would put all armed service upon a purely voluntary basis. Willner plans to stress this viewpoint, as well as attack Truman's contention that training is "good for the boys...
Throughout, the impression was unavoidable that in both choice and interpretation of selections, too much stress was laid upon seeking works notable either for their historical significance or textual content. Tone, precision, sonority--the overall musical possibilities open to some 200 mixed voices were not given enough weight. In the final analysis, it is the sound of music which determines its worth, and the Harvard groups have been straying from this basic premise of late...
Eleanor Roosevelt's note, that stress upon training individual personalities has done away with some of the essential disciplines, and Director Taylor's remark, "When learning becomes drudgery, it usually ceases to be productive," taken together point the way to the fault of schooling today. Attempting to be good teachers and to eliminate drudgery, we have failed to replace it with useful work...
...line "between good-grey press and yellow or purple press," said Markel, divides editors who stress important news from those who stress interesting news. Once in 1922, he recalled, he had asked the late Publisher Adolph S. Ochs: "How does it happen that the Times, which publishes only the news that's fit to print, carries columns upon columns of the Hall-Mills [lovers' lane murder] story...
...this year's contribution to the series of annual William James Philosophy lectures, Professor Hocking's weekly talks, which will be open to the public, will stress international law foundations...