Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...issue will follow a strict A, B, C procedure, and less confusion in finding courses and professors is promised. There are some 1120 pages in the new book, which will be sent to 2600 schools and colleges throughout the world...
...Harper & Brothers this seemed a conspicuous waste. So they hired Critic Bernard DeVoto (Mark Twain's America) to see what he could do with the remainder. He chopped, whittled and selected for about two years, occasionally taking time out to read choice excerpts (under the promise of strict secrecy) to breathless Harvard undergraduates. This week, after tossing out "trivialities, irrelevancies," as well as "thousands of commas and dashes," and toning down some of the more excoriating comments to a mere trickle of verbal lava, Critic DeVoto published the balance of Twain's autobiography as Mark Twain in Eruption...
Halsey feels that in the past Harvard has had plenty of ability out on the boards, but that more stress should have been laid on strict training. This is especially true in the cross-country event where endurance is all important. That is why the first snow storm found the boys sprinting up and down the Charles River embankment...
...Japan did not know whether it was in on this latest war or not. Its attitude toward Greece would be "considered from a practical political standpoint, not in the strict literal sense." Since Albania, an Italian possession, was "attacked" by Greece, Japan dishonored her five-week-old mutual-defense pact with the Axis by not going to Italy...
...toughen them morally as well as mentally and physically, Miss Ruutz-Rees made her girls enact their own rules of conduct, mete out their own punishments. Result is strict discipline. For eating candy (only fruit is allowed between meals), a Rosemarian is kept "on bounds" for two weeks. Some other rules: no chewing gum or cigarets (except for sixth formers), no lipstick or nail polish while in uniform, no reading unpermissioned literature or attending unpermissioned movies...