Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Under strict Naval discipline, the unit will be awakened at 6 o'clock with reveille, then eat in the Union, and at 8 o'clock, assemble for the orders...
...biography ever made. Few films have bestowed such loving care on any hero as this one does on beaming, buoyant, wry-mouthed George M. (for Michael) Cohan. The result is a nostalgic, accurate re-creation of a historic era of U.S. show business. Not that the picture is a strict reconstruction of the playwright-songwright-actor-producer-hoofer's life. But star-spangled George M. Cohan, now 63, ailing, and confined to his upstate New York farm, was the kind of entertainer who really liked to entertain people, and Yankee Doodle has caught his spontaneous warmth...
Even snuff hit a 20th-century high with January-April output at 15,070,000 lb., 13% above last year. Reasons: strict no-smoking rules in war plants and much higher incomes in the snuff-dipping Deep South...
...Mama" v. "Papa." In spite of such strict psychiatric examinations, there are still about 300 more or less serious breakdowns in Army camps every week. According to a report by Dr. George Salvadore Stevenson, head of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, there are three times as many mental breakdowns among enlisted men and the National Guard (who did not get psychiatric examinations before they were accepted) as there are among carefully screened draftees. Most of these men are victims of the most prevalent mental disorder in the U.S.-dementia praecox, a disease characterized by withdrawal from reality...
...staged a night "commando" raid, with 100 men in blackface wading ashore from Lake Mendota to capture a cottage on the lower campus. The daily Cardinal has started a campaign to endow a chair to teach the causes & cures of war. Late this month the university will break a strict rule to give an honorary degree in absentia to General MacArthur, utilizing short wave...