Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...islands-the two chief reasons for Hawaii's claim of "integrality." An expected part of the President's address, a declaration of good intentions towards Japan, did not materialize. He simply said: "The Army and Navy forces . . . constitute an integral part of our national defense and I stress that word defense. These forces must ever be considered an instrument of continuing peace, for our nation's policy seeks peace and does not look to imperialistic aims...
...early and often for Widener. Though the shortcomings of the Father of Libraries have now been remedied on the whole, there is still room for considerable improvement with respect to Boylston and the House libraries if these are to be of maximum service to the students, particularly during the stress of the examination period...
...period of financial distress more than over before there is a very great danger that men who are capable of noteworthy contributions to the intellectual life of the University will be unable to make the trek to Cambridge. But there is one unfortunate aspect to this policy: the entire stress is being laid on concentrating small funds into a few large ones. This is like putting all one's eggs in one basket. It would be well enough if anyone could devise an even reasonably satisfactory system of selection. But when a few men are chosen at intellectual random while...
...Literary Digest is exceedingly interested in the reactions of college men to the policies under which they will live in succeeding years and for this reason particular stress will be laid on the results...
Real economic freedom, he stressed, depends upon the preservation of property rights. The rise of communism in Russia and of Fascism in Italy were due on the one hand to the absence of a powerful middle class and in the other to the weakening of the middle class by economic stress associated with the war. Hence preservation of economics freedom depends upon the development of this middle class which is not susceptible to "the contagious emotions of huddled crowds"; which neither covet nor possess such wealth as to inspire coveteousness in others...