Word: stressfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that was the most serious inaccuracy of "Brown of Harvard", the dean was not at all handsome. Nor could a President be abided who studied biology. Harvard aside from planning a new chemistry laboratory and presenting to the world each year more and more contributions of research could never stress science. And as for the necessity of standing in with the fourth estate the CRIMSON has had to procure the assistance of a doorman to keep the crowd of administrative officers from filling the building during business hours...
...facile diction, and the then president of Princeton is said to have explained: "From my father. He had a reverence for words, and he would never allow us to misuse a word. Not only would he point out the misuse, but he would explain its misuse and stress the correct use of the word. And he was always interesting. I do not know a man who could be so absorbingly interesting in the explanation as to the use of a single word...
Coach Farrell, who was the first to address the meeting expressed his satisfaction at the size of the initial turn-out. He then went on to stress the necessity of beginning intensive practice and training immediately on account of the short season. Captain Tibbetts reviewed the success of the track team during the fall and winter seasons and pointed out what an excellent chance the team had to beat Yale and place high in the intercollegiate this spring...
...bellies in smoke, could not easily dispose of them to the civilian trade. The selling price would have been considerably below the Government contract rate, at which Swift & Co. had keyed their packing operations. The General realized Swift's fairness and willing co-operation throughout the War stress, yet had to refer money adjustment to a Court of Claims; told the company to sell the bacon at the best rates possible. This they did, at $1,077,386.30 below what the Government would have paid them if the bacon had been bought for War purposes...
...single direction. It is this same fundamental unity of purpose rather than a superficial unity of creed and form which recording to Dean Pound, we must have to make religion the present force in politics and law that it has been in the past during periods of transition or stress...