Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hand the precise geographical situations of the Roman Church and the Holy Roman Empire. If, perchance, an extremely important idea hits him, be will make a vicious, but apparently meaningless line on the board, soon to be crossed by another equally pungent and equally obscure. At times of special stress the lines may become arrows flying in remarkably different directions...
...University intends to adopt some of the reforms proposed by Dean Hanford in his Report. He suggested, among other things, "that tutorial work can . . . be strengthened by altering certain practices which are remnants of the old system based entirely upon courses and the continuation of which place undue stress upon course grades as an end in themselves rather than a means...
When the Seventy-second Congress passed the Hare-Hawes-Cutting bill for Philippine independence, that was later rejected by the Philippine Legislature, ten Harvard professors wrote to the committees on Insular Affairs to stress the need for abandoning United States military and naval bases in the Philippines if the Islands were to be given anything like real independence. The Seventy-third Congress has just passed the McDuffie resolution granting Philippine independence, and one of the major changes in the new bill is the abandonment of military bases in the Islands and provision for abandonment of the naval bases...
...line with the trend away from the course system placing more stress on the general examinations and tutorial work the Department of Government has announced a series of lectures on current problems of government to be given next year without credit by some of the younger members of the department. The lectures are primarily for the undergraduates in the field and designed to fit in with tutorial work and preparation for the general examinations. Although they will not be required it is believed they will be extremely helpful in preparing work in the modern fields...
...artist Sean O'Faolain has the good fortune to be obsessed by a single idea. Readers of "Midsummer Night's Madness" will recall how the formally unrelated short stories in that book all elaborated a central theme; the change--usually a disintegrating change--wrought upon its characters by the stress of a hopeless political revolt. In "A Nest of Simple Folk" the pattern of a family chronicle extending in time from 1854 to 1906 is woven about a similar theme. By tracing the fortunes of three generations of Irish men and women, Mr. O'Faolain has been able to realize...