Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Richard Stockton Bullit Darlington '48 has been reading newspaper accounts of the Case of the Missing Masterpiece with more than a passing interest lately, but he is maintaining a strict neutrality in the $100,000 court battle between his mater and his alma mater over the disappearance from the latter's Fogg Museum of the former's masterpiece by Rubens, "Descent from the Cross...
Singing to Shrimp. Before she could make the big time, Jo needed glamorizing. Thyroid pills and strict dieting cut her down to 135 pounds in six months. ("No matter how much grass you eat, those hot rolls and butter are what you miss.") To give her a widow's-peak hairline, a hairdresser yanked out chunks of her hair. The rest of her hair, which was once brown, was dyed...
...headmaster and teacher, Hugh Diman preferred respect to love; he once complained of a picture that it did not make him look strict enough. He was kindly to his boys, but rarely familiar; at his most informal, he would give them friendly pokes in the ribs with his walking stick. Few "Mr. Chips" stories were told about him. More often the boys talked about his bad driving (he permanently scarred a driveway maple tree at St. George's) or his absentmindedness...
...study under Father Stock a prisoner must pass a simple screening: prove that he was a seminarian before he was a soldier. A single interview suffices. Seminarians are excused from regular P.W. labor in the fields, live in separate quarters. But their regimen is strict. Rising at a 6 a.m. bell, they pray and meditate until mass at 6:45, held in a plain, wooden structure decorated with murals by their...
...failure of Asdic and radar was probably all to the good, for the trouble with whaling before the war was its success, which threatened to exterminate whales in every ocean. British experts believe that whaling's future depends on strict regulation, better knowledge of the whales' migration and breeding habits...