I intended to buy a _HOUSE_ this Spring (and not an automobile).

 

I intended to buy a house _THIS_ Spring (instead of next Spring).

 

I intended to buy a house this _SPRING_ (instead of in the Autumn).

 

When a great battle is reported in the papers, they do not keep emphasizing the

same facts over and over again. They try to get new information, or a "new

slant." The news that takes an important place in the morning edition will be

relegated to a small space in the late afternoon edition. We are interested in

new ideas and new facts. This principle has a very important bearing in

determining your emphasis. Do not emphasize the same idea over and over again

unless you desire to lay extra stress on it; Senator Thurston desired to put the

maximum amount of emphasis on "force" in his speech on page 50. Note how force

is emphasized repeatedly. As a general rule, however, the new idea, the "new

slant," whether in a newspaper report of a battle or a speaker's enunciation of

his ideas, is emphatic.

 

In the following selection, "larger" is emphatic, for it is the new idea. All

men have eyes, but this man asks for a _LARGER_ eye.

 

This man with the larger eye says he will discover, not rivers or safety

appliances for aeroplanes, but _NEW STARS_ and _SUNS_. "New stars and suns" are

hardly as emphatic as the word "larger." Why? Because we expect an astronomer to