Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a bright side to Rumania and her people and this side should be brought into prominence before the American public. The King, too, under great stress and strain, is trying to do a good job. He should be encouraged, and should be aided. Let them who have never sinned throw the first stone. LEO WOLFSON...
...Japanese peasant is rigidly controlled by 1) rural custom, 2) government edict. Embree gives the intricate design of that control, suggests its points of stress. Suye Mura, like thousands of Japanese farming villages, is largely sustained by work exchange and other forms of communal cooperation. Farmers cooperate with their neighbors in rice growing, financing the needy (a credit pool is often a form of lottery that continues for years), bridge building, house building, roof repairing, funeral arrangements, and frequent drinking parties celebrating the completion of farming jobs or such vital events as birth, marriage, or the sending of a conscripted...
...neutral, it gave the U. S. one of the complex, confused, unprecedented and yet precedent-ridden problems that are the test of the skill of a country's diplomats, the Tightness of its foreign policy, the humanity and firmness of its foreign dealings in a time of international stress...
...subordinated and directed cannot fail to harm the true and lasting prosperity of nations. . . . Before us stand out with painful clarity the dangers that will accrue to this and coming generations from the neglect or nonrecognition, the minimizing and the gradual abolition of rights peculiar to the family. . . . The stress of our times . . . and countless repercussions are tasted by none so bitterly as that noble little cell, the family...
...Japanese did not stress a few facts : > 1939's summer-autumn cocoon crop is the biggest in six years, estimated...