Word: stressfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rear Admiral William S. Sims, now retired, made a number of speeches in California severely criticising our Government's naval policy. He laid stress on the need for an efficient force of aeroplanes and submarines, and in more than one of his speeches he mentioned the island of Guam...
...Collier's well-contrasted Beranger and Man. There is a certain, indefinite, indescribable quality that the experienced amateur possesses that the professional by necessity loses. And that something is often a desirable thing. It is particularly so when an ensemble playing that shows no professional stress on the individual is achieved. It would be ridiculous to assert that the two plays are in every case played better or as well as they would be in the hands of professionals. But it is sound to say that the general playing, the stress on the play as the prime object of interest...
Throughout the "Miracle Man" is seen the hand of the playmaker who knows how to get his laughs and how to amuse his audience. The crooks and the villagers all contribute to the fund of humor. But in the scenes of emotional stress where the characters should feel and live intensively, Cohan fails to make them real...
...Although there is some disagreement among psychologists," the speaker stated, "the general opinion is that intelligence is the ability of the individual to adjust himself to new situations. Our present tests stress too much language ability and specific knowledge, and give a large advantage to those accustomed to the use of paper and pencil. We have not yet any means of measuring morals, will, conscientiousness, carefulness, confidence, and other such valuable characteristics. Too much should not be expected of the tests at the present time. It is in fact a wonder that so much has been accomplished in so short...
...moral suasion" has been much discussed. Even now, with so startling an effect of the fag system set before them, the English papers are still battling over the question. The opponents of the custom have good support in the news of this suicide; their antagonists lay stress on the "over-sensitiveness" of the boy in the case, an uphold hazing as being generally wholesome and corrective. Both sides, incidentally, agree that hazing is not nearly so prevalent as it was fifty or a hundred years...