Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...along North Elkhorn Creek, the present-day Elmendorf is the heart of what was once a vast 9,800-acre tract owned by James Ben Ali Haggin, fabulous copper baron. A farm of such scope could not exist in tax-ridden 1952, but most Lexington breeders are content to stress quality-and hope that the racing boom lasts forever...
...advance, people who are doomed to suffer from high blood pressure. University of California researchers believe they have a strong clue in the fact that people showing the first warning signs of hypertension are "more hostile and less well controlled than normal, and less well equipped to cope with . . . stress...
...half-substitute, half-improvement over the marking system students have weekly conferences with faculty advisers, with some five hours of preparation for each conference. Although the conferences stress tutorial, the subjects discussed range from dating to health and hygiene. AT these tutorials girls get an indication of how they are doing in the college. The only official indication comes when students present an appraisal of their college life for entrance into the senior division. A girl may try for senior division at any time during her first two years. There are frequent cases, however, of juniors who are still applying...
...unwilling to indulge in that assumption, because I believe that our procedures under the Constitution can stand the stress and strains of an emergency today as they have in the past, and are adequate to meet the test of emergency and crisis...
...report went on to stress the needs for specialized manpower--needs which "for the forseeable future seem likely to be more and more severe." It endorsed present deferment policies, but saw a need for combining programs for training in military skills and for civilian specialities. It also recommended that a study be made of the possibilities of training women...