Word: strictest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...rigorous course of instruction and physical training, and who, at all hours of the day and night, is under the immediate supervision of a commissioned officer. He leads the strenuous and the simple life. The Academy believes that no man can command others until he has himself learned the strictest kind of discipline...
...decrease in the undergraduate membership has necessitated the strictest economy. No entertainments have been given that entailed expense and the open fires and afternoon tea were only made possible by the gift of graduates. Although the working force has been reduced, few complaints about the service have been made...
...science falls back on the great theory of the metamorphosis of motion. The vibrations which produce the senses, says materialism, set the brain into motion, which in turn arouses consciousness and through it the nerves and the body are set in motion. This argument, however, must fall before the strictest psychological research. In reality the brain vibrations themselves set the nerves in motion, and in the circle from the sense vibrations to the resulting bodily movements consciousness nowhere enters in. Consciousness is not aroused by brain action, it is not a link in the chain of physical sensations...