Word: stressfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...object of the Committee is "to work for enforcement of all law, with special stress at present on the Prohibition Law-the front today where the battle against lawlessness is being fought...
...Qhamber of Deputies passed by a vote of 505 to 64 the bill regulating the organization of the French Army. Under stress of arguments urging that France must be ready for "the next war," full power was given the Government to order mobilization by decree, without immediate ratification, demanded in a Socialist amendment. The Socialists insisted that the authorization should apply only to national external security. M. Maginot, Minister of War, replied: "We must also be prepared against the possibility of internal insurrection." The amendment was defeated, 380 to 190. The Army will consist of 68 infantry regiments, 5 Foreign...
Particular stress will be placed this year on developing a good doubles combination, which will play together at all times. Pfaffman and Ingraham will undoubtedly be matched with each other, and should form one of the strongest combinations in collegiate circles. The prospects of winning the national intercollegiate doubles this year are the brightest since the title was taken three years...
...high hopes that the new American merchant marine built under the stress of war would bring back the heyday of American ocean commerce have been severely shaken by the recurrent deficits of the Shipping Board budgets. The experience of the past few years seems to prophesy all too plainly that with the passing of the famous clipper ships went forever American mercantile supremacy. Various explanations have been offered which characteristically center in an abuse of government management, but the almost obvious reason is the same that prevented the development of a merchant marine before the war--the fact that Americans...
There is no comparison about the matter," he went on, "for the great majority of schools do not require their teachers to stress religion. All that is asked of them is that they treat religion with a general decency. But by this I do not mean that the public schools are in any way godless...