Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must stress once again that the advocated reforms are at present only a recommendation which the Department of Romance Languages wishes to make and is subject as all other recommendations to the approval of the Faculty. Robert L. Politzer
...courses, which meet three hours a week and stress oral instruction, will be discontinued. All other courses, including intensive classes which meet six hours a week and "A" and "C" courses that meet three times a week and emphasize reading skill, will remain relatively unaltered...
...Bell emphasizes that individuals differ enormously in their ability to "hold" liquor, e.g., a scrawny, 120-pounder may be able to outdrink a heavyweight wrestler. But is the body is repeatedly subjected to massive doses of alcohol, sooner or later it can no longer adapt itself to the stress, and metabolism breaks down. Warns Dr. Bell: "Anybody who repeatedly drinks so that he has a higher concentration than 50 milligrams should take a look at his drinking habits." Always moderate in his own drinking, Dr. Bell has cut down still more since he started to see milligrams in every glass...
...working class is not the Messiah which some of us thought." Socialists must not press state ownership too far, since "the state under the most democratic theory and practice will become too huge, too cumbersome . . . A completely noncompetitive society would be dull and stagnant . . . Socialism should try to stress competition for the laurel wreath rather than the sack of gold . . . But it should recognize that material progress has been furthered by competition for material reward . . . The concept of the class conflict basic to Marxism needs modification. Marx thought that the lines of division between workers and owners were becoming steadily...
...bottom of the engineering ladder are the stress analysts. Except in rare cases, these men spend most of their time doing detailed calculations of the various forces that are imposed on the plane's components. College graduates with bachelor's degrees frequently start out in stress analysis; after a few year's experience here they move on to design groups...