Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most precious description was Flyer Orie William ("Bill") Coyle's. He had "a ringside seat 9,500 ft. above the earth" in a Transcontinental & Western Air mail plane traveling East. Flyer Coyle, 37, quiet, learned accurate observation under stress during War bombardments. His report of what he saw was quickly reported by the Associated Press when he landed at Kansas City: "It was the most spectacular sight I ever have witnessed. The meteor appeared out of the northeast, traveling west by southwest. It was 5:15 a. m. Mountain Time, and I was over Adrian, Tex., 45 miles west...
...disposal German radio stations of sufficient power to encircle the entire world with Hitler propaganda, said that he would begin by putting on the air a daily short-wave broadcast in English & German aimed at listeners throughout the U. S. and Canada. At first the programs will stress German music and such-proceeding gradually to Enlightenment and Propaganda when a sufficiently large audience has been built...
...courses and the tutorial work stress one common point--acquaintance with actual compositions by analyses and reports, while the recently revised general examinations are designed to test the student's comprehensive knowledge of musical literature...
...half-courses which will normally form a full course will be known as English 25a and 25b. They will deal with Anglo-Saxon poetry. English 75, which was discontinued this year, will be given next winter by F. P. Magoun, Jr., '16, associate professor of Comparative Literature, and will stress the problems of the English language. Magoun's course on old English dialects has been discontinued...
...memories are sadly short, when they can find cheaper ways of doing things. Yet we can be, and some day will be, reasonably safe against earthquakes in American cities." The entire Pacific is rimmed with earthquake potentialities, he then reminded the world. Earth is faulty and under cracking stress all along the west coast of North and South America (with an easterly loop which includes the West Indies). The terrestrial weakness stretches across Alaska and the Aleutian Islands to Kamchatka, whence it passes southward through the Japanese, Philippine and South Pacific archipelagoes...