Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flinty Judge Orion Thomas Gower, a strict disciplinarian, felt it was high time to hand down a lesson. He had lost his patience: it was ridiculous, he said, for the Government to ask housewives to save fats when thousands of tons of cottonseed oil and peanut oil were lost for lack of farm hands. He sentenced Weston to a year on a chain gang, fined him $1,000. The imprisonment was stayed on condition that Weston leave the State within 24 hours, stay out for at least 18 months...
Texas-born Lieut. Colonel Richard H. Carmichael is 29 years old; he finished West Point only six years ago. Rated a strict disciplinarian in the loosely disciplined Air Corps, he was given command of General MacArthur's Flying Fortresses last summer, the third commander of an off-&-on outfit within six months. Colonel Carmichael's strong point was his experience in this war with this war's planes: he started the war as a captain flying a B-17 out of the Philippines, learned what it meant to dodge anti-aircraft and swarms of Japanese Zeros while...
...28th year, the AFS is attractive to those college men who cannot pass strict eye tests for the regular armed services of the nation. Action is promised to those who enlist, and, according to letters from the front is delivered...
...17th-Century Dutch masters were (with a few neighboring Flemings) the first realists in Western art. Discouraged by the strict doctrines of Calvinism from painting religious subjects, they applied the deft oil technique of the Italians to the simple subject matter they found about them, discovering for the first time the pictorial beauty of barnyards, shops, kitchens, streets, simple people...
Dalrymple's method is the six-hour day and a strict quota system which forces every member to work at the same speed. Thus while every factory pays piece rates, practically all banding department men earn $7.92 a day, all truck tire builders $8.90 a day. The men could earn more by turning out more units. But when one company wanted to boost the daily stint to 169 tire bands per man per day the union squashed it to 143 per day. Reason: a few men might not make the grade and get less money than others...