Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Taylor's place among American men of letters is all the more note-worthy because, like Francis Bacon, he took up the search for knowledge purely as a hobby after the stress of a busy life of affairs. Too many scholarly treatises read as if written from a painful sense of duty; Dr. Taylor, a former practising lawyer, writes purely for dis-interested enjoyment, yet compares favorably with his professional contemporaries both in substance and in vitality. Particularly interesting to undergraduates should be the lectures of a man who is notable for having brought a penetrating simplicity into a field...
Also, looking toward the deeper study of diplomacy, Myron Charles Taylor* gave $1,500,000 to his alma mater, the Cornell Law School, to build a Myron Taylor Hall for law students & faculty. Wrote he, in making the gift: "It is well to stress the importance of the study of languages . . . particularly French, which is the diplomatic language of the world, and, if possible, Italian and Spanish. . . . It is to be hoped that ultimately such a centre or college of law will be developed and will embody within its courses in international law one of diplomacy, that it may permit...
...officers of this ship do not seem to measure up to the standard that we would expect in a British ship." And from the whole disaster Inspector Hoover stated there was one great lesson to be learned. Mechanically, nothing went wrong. Humanly, almost everything went wrong. "We must hereafter stress men more than things...
Years later Grant flattered himself that he too was a Wall Street potentate, only to learn in tragic finale that again he had been duped, used, ruined. Yet, under stress of terrific pain (cancer) his pathetic persistence in scribbling memoirs that would support his widow is the courageous characteristic that well overshadows faults and stupidities...
...Student Council Committee of 1926. The students who will be admitted will be selected to represent as many different types and interests as possible. They will attend the regular University classes. From the University as heretofore they will receive their degrees. The "inner college" will therefore merely stress the contacts inter se which students at large universities do not often enjoy...