Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recently I noticed the disposition to give the Wets all the best publicity magnifying their falsehoods and laying great stress upon what their leading propagandists say. Slight attention is given to the other side...
...White Armies" to vanishing white hopes. Denikin was driven from Ekaterinodar and fled to Constantinople. Baron Wrangel retreated to Sevastopol, lost it, and likewise fled-to turn up recently in Belgium, still "White" (TIME, Dec. 27). The "Red Terror," a series of extraordinary measures resorted to in time of stress, crystallized into the still active Soviet secret police...
...modern writers, "whether Pegasus or a screech-owl is hovering over Chicago." This remark may with some extension be applied very appropriately to much of modern art, and particularly modern verse, not only in America but perhaps even to a greater extent in Europe. There is a storm and stress in present day art called Expressionism, whose chief manifestation seems to be a centrifugal stress from a central storm,--a limitless seeking for the bizarre; an aestheticising of the ugly...
...been justly observed that one of the great faults in athletics throughout the country is the stress laid on Varsity teams almost to the point of ignoring men who can add nothing to the potential strength of those teams. The feeling at Harvard is opposed to this narrow outlook. This year certainly the principal athletic policy has been to widen the scope of sport to include as many men as possible, and to provide them not only with facilities but with competent coaching. In crew, the number for whom we have thus provided is considerable. Last fall thirty-two crews...
...with an act of fifth-rate vaudeville. Of what use are ushers in natty uniforms, radio set in the lobby, and all the luxury of the Pharoahs, in the pictures on the screen are specimens of Hollywood at its worst. Movies in the Square, especially at such times of stress as examinations always bring, could be a welcome and convenient opportunity of clearing one's mind of one subject before cramming it with another. The management should learn that there are movies--and movies...