Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...legislate Communist teachers out of existence. Yet rarely in attempts of this sort have Communists been the real losers; the real injury caused by these shotgun tactics has been to liberals and other non-Communists. The subtle method argues that no man who follows a dictatorial dogma and strict party organization is capable of objective teaching. Yet the difficulties of defining an ideology and of accurately labeling the card-holding teacher most of whom would certainly go underground would make the end result of such attempted definition by college authorities and legislators as misdirected as the crude attempts at outlawing...
Even without Russian agreement, the Western Powers could solve a substantial part of the economic problem. They could take German industry completely out of the hands of the notorious private cartels and nationalize it under strict controls. Thus far, the U.S. has been able to prevent nationalization on the pretext that German workers would labor more efficiently for their old masters. If the foreign ministers cannot find a workable arrangement for four-power control of German industry, the West should at least end the present sorry policy...
...Overtime. In St. Louis, Walter Mingo, admitting 40 apartment burglaries told police he attributed his success to keeping strict union hours-9 to 4, five days a week...
...fashioned horse opera. Another kernel of corn: Garfield's big death scene, highlighted by Gilbert Roland's brokenhearted requiem in calypso rhythm and some highfalutin dialogue delivered by Miss Jones. Never for a moment a dull movie, Strangers is often too facile or too far away from strict artistic honesty. Coming from the man who made Treasure of the Sierra Madre, it is a disappointment...
...planned. Its 1,200 students like it that way. The "minks" (as W. & L. students refer to themselves, with determined superiority-their next-door V.M.I. rivals are known as Brother Rats) affect a high degree of collegiate courtliness, are seldom seen without coat and tie, still abide by the strict honor system Lee set down for them over 80 years ago. Though they come from 39 different states, most are from the South, where W. & L.'s college of arts and sciences and its schools of commerce and law rank high. Unlike most Southern colleges, W. & L. refuses...