Word: stressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Football of the 1880's was a rough game with the stress on brawn. A team was built around its line, and Yale and Harvard vied for the nation's giants. In 1893, Harvard came out with the greatest sensation since the game had been invented -- the flying wedge. It was promptly copied by every team in the country...
...Stress in the practice was placed on a half-hour defensive scrimmage, with freshmen running Tiger plays against a tentative first defense. Running and passing from a Princeton single wing, with fullback and tailback parallel to the line, freshman Joe Conzleman played Dick Kazmaier in a fairly successful series of plays...
Harry Truman still looks trim and cocky during public appearances, still gets up early enough to work before breakfast. But except on rare occasions, his famed two-mile morning hikes are now a thing of the past-abandoned under the stress of White House toil, and at the urging of White House physician General Wallace Graham to get the President to sleep a little later in the morning. Last week sharp-eyed reporters noted another alteration in the President's personal routine-after years of folding his breast-pocket handkerchief so that four geometrically perfect points protruded, he appeared...
Livingston Hall, Law School vice dean and Chairman of the Harvard unit of the 1952 Red Feather campaign, said last night that both last year's and this year's Combined Charities pamphlets didn't "stress that students themselves are the direct beneficiaries of the greater Boston Fund...
Peterman claimed last night that Hall wants consideration for Red Feather out of proportion with the other eight charities, and thus we have no right to stress all the facts that he wants." Hall wrote a letter to the Combined Charities, but it arrived after the pamphlet was written. Peterman admitted, however, that "we could possibly have changed it on proofing...