Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...natural to expect that a condensed course will necessitate certain relaxations of the strict educational requirements of the College, but to attempt to pump two courses worth of information into a man in two-thirds the time which that process will continue to take in the winter months is a futile and needless sacrifice of Harvard's standards. The emergency for which the summer course is designed does not look to be of any short duration and even after the war it is possible that a three year plan will still be so attractive to prospective doctors, lawyers, and graduates...
...Army relaxed its rule on men paroled from prison, agreed to accept them if they are not "morally unfit." But the War Department ordered corps commanders to pay strict attention to a law of 1877 which forbids the Army to accept any man who has been convicted of a felony...
...travels as if draped in the American Flag itself and preceded by a guard of honor. But while civilian critics used to consider MacArthur a swashbuckling, colorful, impeccably dressed soldier with a penchant for the William Jennings Bryan type of oratory, most of his Army contemporaries thought him a strict disciplinarian, a magnificent leader of men in action, a first-class fighting...
Above average in intelligence (candidates are nominated by Congressmen, but must pass a stiff entrance examination), midshipmen are trained in a strict code of regulations that governs every detail of their lives down to gum-chewing. By the time he graduates, a midshipman can be recognized anywhere by his straight carriage (not as stiff as West Point's), his poise, his fluency (every midshipman is trained in after-dinner speaking), his robust health...
...censorship the public will stand for still remains to be seen. As for the censor himself, Byron Price indicates he would be reasonable and as former chief of one of the world's biggest staffs of foreign correspondents he ought to have considerable understanding of the curse of strict and inept censorship...