Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Art for Art's sake to the last word in Art for practical usage, and direct his steps toward the Old Fogg Museum. There Mr. Buckminster Fuller is once again to exhibit and lecture upon his "Dymaxion House" introducing a new application of the old physical principle of stress vs. strain. The "Dymaxion House", in case there is some doubt as to its nature but the Vagabond will not attempt to compete with Mr. Fuller in the explanation of this remarkable structure. Suffice it to say that he is as certain, after Mr. Fuller's lectures of last year...
Economic Facts. In advising anyone, white or black, slave or free, male or female who expects to go to Buenos Aires the important thing to stress is the terrific cost of living, higher than almost anywhere else. This economic fact is really the basis of the White Slave traffic. Young women are promised and young women are paid for dancing, sums which would be "big money" in Europe, but in the Argentine they are so meagre that the dancer becomes the hostess and the hostess the common or uncommon daughter...
...Library, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Mrs. J. Montgomery Sears, Mrs. Joseph L. Valentine, Philip Hofer, Esq., the Ross Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Dr. Edward W. Forbes and Professor Paul J. Sachs. It includes outstanding examples of work from the thirteenth to fourteenth centuries, laying stress upon the important periods of work done during that time...
...article again lays stress on intelligent preparation by the student during his college career for the field in which he is interested. To a large group there is a novel aspect in the notion that a high scholastic standing is more representative of the prospective job-holder's ability, so far as corporation executives are concerned, than a list of reference numbers after his name in the Harvard Register...
...work on which so much stress is supposedly laid in the apportionment of honors, the administration of this group of examinations is remarkably lax. The present year offers two particularly apt examples of this, with no assurance that the efficiency will be any greater next year. The plan of holding these examinations for Seniors in the fall instead of the spring was an improvement, but unfortunately the benefit to be derived from it is much diminished by the veil of mystery that hangs over the examinations. On the one side, Seniors should be notified early in September of the exact...