Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry, a strict Roman Catholic all his days, started no new church...
...outside of many a U. S. community are tourist camps which fill up by 11 p.m., are deserted by 2 a.m. Recently Fulton County, Ga. clamped a stringent set of new regulations on its camps: strict adherence to sanitary ordinances, fingerprinting of all employes, detailed registration of all guests (including car & driver's licenses), no wine and beer licenses. Motor Courters at last week's convention urged all communities to enforce similar rules in order to help their young industry get and keep a better reputation...
...tremendous volume of participants in rowing is handled by Weld efficiently because of strict limitations on the time for which a boat may be used; 45 minutes is the longest. By enforcing several simple rules, the coaches are able to avoid accidents and collisions with eight-oar crews and with the other individual boats to a great extent...
...Student Union statement says, "The lack of a condemnation of the Soviet Union in no way implies approval of its action in Finland. Most important of the points was a fear of moral condemnation that might obscure the practical program of no aid to belligerents' beyond the strict confines of cash and carry. We will not abandon the A.S.U. because of this split because we have enjoyed together a year of successful work and considerable growth...
Taboo in the Thomas family of Baltimore were dancing, card playing, the theatre, discussion of politics and sex, quarreling and demonstrativeness. But the Thomases, descendants of Quaker Founder George Fox, were not such strict Quakers as Grandmother Whitall: when she came visiting, they hid the piano. Under great stress one of the family taboos might be broken: Dr. Thomas made an apoplectic exception to denounce Cleveland as too radical. When it came time to tell the children about the Facts of Life, Dr. Thomas said it was Mrs. Thomas' place to tell their four sons, and that their four...