Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither is strong enough for the job. Until builders, or alternatively the Federal government, can come through with housing to shelter people who cannot afford to pay increasd rents--an estimated 600,000 people in New York City alone--strict controls are necessary to keep overwhelming demand from pushing rents high out of reach. The original Federal controls are just good enough for the job; the comparative present stability of rents shows this. If Congress weakens these controls, it will benefit nobody but the men who have so far terribly failed to cure the housing shortage on their...
...present plan would also be on a small scale, Rogers has said. Screening tests would choose students for the program, and a strict eye would be kept on the standards of the work being done...
Impromptu shows manage to crop up every now and then in spite of the fact that the station is run on a strict broadcasting schedule. Radio Radcliffe announcers like to ad lib Spike Jones records...
There are serious dangers in these high aims. With less strict limits, the new course may lose direction in its huge field. The attempt to make the material more digestable may only make it easier, sacrificing the valuable disciplinary training which History 1 provided. In its prime, History 1 set high standards. To justify the change, Social Sciences 1 must confront the same problems and show that it can solve them more successfully...
...clean, fast hockey game most of the way, thanks to the strict refereeing of Paul Cleary and John Foley. Unfortunately for the Elis, who apparently were not used to careful refereeing, the burden of the penalty calls fell on them...