Word: iron-clad
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...iron-clad Yale game rule burdens the coaching staffs in the key game of the year with the knowledge that they must play all the men who rate awards. "If the score had been 21 to 21," Dick Harlow said after the last Yale game, "I'm afraid a lot of kids wouldn't have gotten their letters." Injured men patently cannot play in a game, Yale or otherwise, and there have been cases in the past where a man got an early season broken leg instead...
...Hirohito's grandfather as a qualified son of heaven was largely the result of political engineering. Japan's real rulers (a combination of militarists and industrialists) simply dusted off some ancient fables about the dynasty, rescued Emperor Meiji from obscurity and backed their traditions with iron-clad law and a state-enforced religion...
...Stalin was that it was less the face of a man than of a historic force. It was the face of the first proletarian Bolshevik to become unquestioned lawgiver and dispenser of dogma to a party whose 4,600,000 members were bound to absolute obedience by an iron-clad discipline. It was also the face of the absolute ruler of some 180,000,000 people of 170 nationalities, living in one-sixth of the earth's surface, in a socialist empire spilling across Europe and Asia from Poland to the Pacific Ocean, and threatening to spill farther...
...might as well have been transported to Shangri-la for the first few of those nine days, it has been so amazing. Musters divided by 10 and then redivided to give us our present number, no daily room inspection, but instead, a student club, more shore leave, generally less iron-clad discipline...BUT, more work and still more...
...other courts open, and no one was waiting for ours. What is the reason for this procedure? Can it be that Harvard University puts the small amount of wear and tear on the courts ahead of the physical well-being of the students? Has someone set up an iron-clad rule which must be followed when the courts are relatively deserted as well as when they are crowded? In any case it does not seem to me that the H. A. A. will succeed in its hardening program if it discourages voluntary athletic participation by adopting a policy...