Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the last year the play has enjoyed remarkable success not only in Germany, where it was first produced, but throughout Europe. There have been various Russian adaptations which stress the political satire. In the translation used by the Dramatic Club the political allusions which have lost their significance, have been replaced by more appropriate satirical hits...
...those wishing to study English literature without having too much stress placed on its history and chronological development, English 79 provides a good means of escape. Little attention is paid to the lives of the writers, except where they throw considerable light on the work, and dates may be forgotten almost entirely. The first half year is devoted to poetry, the second to prose. The elementary principles of literary criticism are taken...
Keyman Robertson keynoted that "the International Labor Organisation has served and is serving as a perpetual reminder in these times of economic stress that the worker's standard of life and his conditions of labor should be maintained to the utmost possible limits!" (Cheers...
Groups of Rifle Club members will leave daily except on weekends from Winthrop House to practice at the Woburn range, and teams will be selected on the basis of this practice shooting Clay pigeon traps and a number of pistol butts are also available for use, but the main stress will be laid on rifle shooting...
...whole or part, their special privileges, is bound to recur. Harvard's "gentleman's agreement" with Cambridge sprang from a similar situation and a similar feeling. The material and intellectual advantages which a locality derive from the presence of a great university are not sufficient, in times of economic stress, to compensate for the loss of revenue from the tax exemptions of wealthy institutions. The pressure of taxation on the poorest citizens is increased by such exemptions, and their demand for relief is as legitimate, as it is inevitable. Response to it is a moral, if not a legal, obligation...