Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bohemia-born Rabbi Wise arrived in the U.S. in 1846 to find the country's Jews scattered and unorganized, and falling away from their ancient faith. For half a century he traveled up & down the land preaching and organizing a new, liberalized Judaism; it laid less stress on traditional forms and observances than on cutting the vital principles of the Old Testament to the democratic measure of the New World. "American Judaism" which he founded is today called "Reform," and numbers 350 U.S. congregations...
Included in the school's curriculum are publicity and financing techniques, planning and running campaigns, and methods of influencing legislatures. The faculty will lay stress on ward and precinct organization, and political action through trade unions...
...reads the drafts of his speeches to his wife in the living room of their 13-room house in Chevy Chase. "I'm the American public," says "Marney" Clifford brightly. "I used to be the average jury." When he is under the stress of big events, she surreptitiously changes his diet "to a sort of baby food...
Included in the survey are fifteen possible remedies for the present situation. Separation of college aspirants from other less ambitious students, more stress on remedial reading, and the increased study of Latin and Greek are the three most easily applicable solutions, the report holds...
...choose". In the same manner the speaker discredited the popular impression of Iago as a smooth sly man by pointing out the absolute trust which was placed on him by Othello, and the honesty with which the author characterized him in the play. Continuing the story, Professor Kittredge laid stress on the pathetic quality of the scene between Othello and his condemned wife...