Word: stressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...behavior of matter under stress may help the scientist in understanding the nature of the earth's crust...
According to a currently scientific theory, a normal person's adrenalin glands issue hormones during times of stress. To prove the theory and the blood test, Dr. Albert E. Renold, research fellow in medicine, Dr. Thomas B. Quigley '29, clinical associate in Surgery, Dr. Harrison E. Kennard '25, assistant surgeon and Dr. George W. Thorn, Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physics, made the tests on crew members and coaches...
Three days later it backslid, ran the headline: HEARINGS STRESS ACHESON UBIQUITY. Professor White, 33, spotted "ubiquity" as one of the thickest fog words, made a bet with John Crider, the Herald's chief editorial writer, that few readers knew what it meant. To prove it, White stood in front of the Boston Public Library and polled 72 passersby. His findings: only 19.4% correctly thought that "ubiquity" meant "everywhere-at-the-same-time"; most thought (by association with the name "Acheson") that it referred to "errors...
Clarification of the team's actual League status has taken some of the stress off today's game with New Hampshire, scheduled for 4 p.m. on the Business School Field. No matte what the result, the championship is safe...
...second major change--revision of Economics 1--has also been greeted with mixed response and results, and, like the tutorial, it, too, is due for further alterations. Many criticized the old course, with its stress on tools of technical analysis, as confusing and dull...