Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Fechner himself has never specifically agreed to militarizing his boys. But when a move is afoot to cut down on CCC appropriations or to thwart his ambition to make it a permanent agency, he may stress the corps' present military values. Once he was quoted as saying that after the regular six-month CCC enrollment a graduate was "85% prepared for military life." His publicity man says a reporter put the figure in his mouth; he meant 50%. Army officers consider three months' intensive training the minimum necessary to turn a green man into a conscript fighter...
...Thompson suggested that flight surgeons describe plane crashes to prospective pilots taking the test. A candidate who gets a glowing report from the haematometharmozograph would be a poor risk, for he is likely "to become unnerved when under stress...
State laws, however, are contradictory and confused, no help but a hindrance to teachers. Some stress teachings scarcely to be distinguished from those of foreign dictatorships: obedience to authority, a narrow, nationalistic patriotism...
WASHINGTON -- The United States government moved for a second time within a week tonight to ease the financial stress in China created by Japan's undeclared...
...publishers stress the fact that New England fishermen never go to sea without a copy, that the Massachusetts Supreme Court consults it for exact data, that it L; required reading in astronomy at Harvard and Smith. It went to 125,000 subscribers last year, many of them in cities. Says New Hampshire Governor Francis P. Murphy in a typical reader's testimonial: ". . . Just so long as The Old Farmer's Almanac keeps coming out regularly I shall be reminded that, after all, this world is in many ways the same old world that our fathers knew...