Word: stressfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With its removal to this new building, which it is hoped will be ready by the first of September, the school will place added stress on the preparation of boys for the entrance examinations...
...very heart of his subject, he discussed crime in every phase of its development. Taking up the definition of crime first he showed how indeterminate a quality it is. He then passed to the punishment of crime and showed its accompanying ill effects. In concluding he placed all his stress on the training of children, offering them proper vocational guidance so that they would not be forced by poverty into committing robbery and other property crimes...
...four years earnest attempts have been made to relieve the stress of this situation, a stress inimical to the peace of the world. The Swiss have offered to sign a note apologizing "sincerely." The Russians have held out for "emphatically...
...There are occasional exceptions, but they are unimportant and are enormously overbalanced by the many passages in which the poetry is successful. One of the surest signs of Mr. Robinson's rank as a poet is the individuality of his rhythm; the "personality" of his style. He puts great stress (more than is commonly observed) on the sound of words, he uses a large number of feminine endings with a very special effect, his verse is never monotonous, and its melody with a peculiar, slightly remote, cadence of its own, is nearly always delightful. "Tristram" possesses these qualities and many...
...biology; preferably also astronomy. Choice of courses in these allied, fundamental sciences is facilitated by the provision that two of the six courses approved for concentration in geology may be taken in allied departments. Within the Division of Geology the four required courses may be so grouped as to stress any one of three phases of the broad subject; the evolution of the earth and its inhabitants; the nature and origin of rock formations, including ore and valuable constituents of the earth's crust; and the physical environment of life, including climate. Under such conditions concentration in geology coupled...