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Word: stressful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sail all over the world-and the Coast Guard patrol boat Faunce. Later, the freighter Edgemoor, now being reconditioned, will be added to the school equipment. Training courses as planned will require three months, during which the enrolled seamen will be paid $36 a month. First month will stress the rudiments of sailing ("even a steward should be able to throw a bowline") ; second month deck men, stewards and engine men will receive instruction in their special fields; third month will be a training cruise. Graduates are not guaranteed jobs and are not expected to be officer material...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Seamen's Seminar | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

...John failed to stress that nearly all such jobs are in factories set up in Britain by wealthy Jews who got out of Germany with their fortunes intact either before or just after Hitler became Chancellor in 1933. Corsets, brassieres, buttons and leather goods are the chief products of these factories. Many were set up by the Jews in plants abandoned in British "distressed areas" such as Durham. In Hampstead, London, there are now so many German Jews that Bobbies have been put on the beat who speak German. Dr. Sigmund Freud exclaimed to friends recently how startled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Englishmen Working | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...advertising has been persistent and effective, if somewhat outspoken. In 1932 this advertising reached a pinnacle, which Scott officials recall with obvious pain, in the "acid campaign," whose headlines took the slant of "I'VE GOT TO HAVE *** A MINOR OPERATION!'' Current campaigns still stress "harsh tissue dangers" but somewhat less crassly. A sample comic-strip ad today shows little Jeanie prattling, "It scratches awful, mummy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Tissue Issue | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

Henry Ford's schools in Greenfield, with 244 pupils all told, go from kindergarten to the college level. At the top is the Edison Institute of Technology. Although he once said "history is bunk," the Greenfield schools teach history. But they stress such subjects as typewriting, manual training, telegraphy, mathematics, spelling, agriculture. Machine shop work begins in the eighth grade. Prime aim of the Ford educational plan is to produce a nation of handy men, rather than poets or philosophers. His curriculum excludes all but "useful" subjects. Thus, his schools teach no foreign language, no art but the utilitarian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ford Schools | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

Particular stress was laid on a reconsideration of the plan for associated House memberships, inasmuch as University Hall feels that the number annually excluded from the Houses will be considerably reduced by stabilization of the Freshman class at 1000 members, and by the graduation of the unusually large classes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Situation Survey Is Planned by Hanford As Freshmen Offer Plans to Cure Inadequacy | 5/24/1938 | See Source »

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