Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reformed Jewry holds its services in the U. S. in English, on Sunday instead of Saturday, with little oldtime ritual, with stress on current cultural developments. Orthodox Jewry holds tightly to tradition, regulates itself largely by the Talmud. In between these two is Conservative Jewry...
Naturally Mr. Aldred did not stress that his great competitor in the placing of Italian electric power securities is the house of Blair & Co., of Manhattan, who are handling more than $50,000,000 of such paper...
...Much stress has been laid by the press on the fact that Stefansson and Anderson did not develop scurvy. There was no reason why they should develop scurvy, beri beri, or chilblains. All three vitamins, A, B and C, are present in small amounts in fresh lean meat; liver contains more of them. Other foodstuffs contain even more, it is true, but if the men were allowed all they wanted to eat, they would get enough of the essential vitamins in the beef products to satisfy. The real interest in such an experiment lies in the effect of a meat...
Police brutality, onerous anti-picketing injunctions, and the breakdown of the Jacksonville agreement were the burden of Mr. Lewis' tale which rambled somewhat under stress of emotion. President Coolidge's letter to Mr. Lewis in December 1925, was read into the record deploring "the breaking of any contract," explaining why the U. S. could not intervene, referring the miners to the courts, pronouncing collective bargaining to be "a principle now accepted in American life." Mr. Lewis repeated the miners' charge that railroads, notably the Pennsylvania, had thumbscrewed the mine operators into thumbscrewing the miners. The names "Rockefeller...
...Governor General had said: "It is not within the province of the Governor General to determine the future relations of the inhabitants of these Islands to the United States . . . I lay particular stress upon industrial and economic progress." That seemed plain enough. It means that Col. Stimson would have little patience with Independence propagandists...