Word: strictest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cannot bait the new student organization now, for it produced a leadership which represents a cross-section of American students in the strictest sense. Chairman-elect Jim Smith, student body president at the University of Texas, heads an executive Committee including 30 regional chairmen and three representatives of an organizational council embracing every shade of political opinion and religious guidance...
...knows how phloem necrosis spreads. Dutch elm disease is better understood; it is a fungus carried from elm to elm by small bark beetles. They slip through the meshes of the strictest quarantine. Spraying will kill them, and the Department is experimenting with DDT and its rival, benzene hexachloride ("Gammexane" in Britain; TIME, June 24). But it is not too hopeful. There are too many elms to spray...
...congregation of Tiggers, Rabbits, Wols, and piglets agreed under strictest absence of parliamentary procedure, since they cannot Bear voting, that they would pursue their literary communion without the protective aegis of the University Hall Pooseum or Rueter, who was retroactively impeached from his post of Christopher Robin of the Poohs...
...hasten to insist that there is a university connected with the football team. It has 4,500 students, a good chemistry department (where a formula for synthetic rubber was discovered), one of the best libraries on Irish culture and history in the U.S., and some of the strictest discipline anywhere outside West Point and Annapolis...
Witnesses and suspects, deprived of the right of habeas corpus, were questioned in strictest secrecy in a ninth-floor room of the capital's guarded Justice Building. At night they were still held incommunicado, beyond reach of either relatives or lawyers, some at a Royal Canadian Mounted Police barracks. The area was swept by floodlights and ringed with armed guards in buffalo coats...