Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ohio State is a member of the Association of American Universities, the nation's top-notch rating group whose select circle includes only thirty-odd universities and whose standards of admission and tenure are high and strict. Yet, during the recent holidays, Ohio State was host and manager, for the third time, of the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Yet, just before your article was written, Ohio State professors were named to head three nationally distinguished groups: the American Botanical Society, the American Association for Applied Psychology and the American Chemical Society. This...
...strict isolationist, Senator Vandenberg helped lead the Senate opposition last October to repeal of the arms embargo...
...bargaining rights of labor be not curtailed as is proposed, for instance, by the suggested M-day plan; we must insist on freedom of speech for all religious groups and all political parties, and for all attitudes towards the war. We must exert our influence to see that strict neutrality is observed without hedging. There must be no loans to belligerents, which might, as in 1917, tend to involve us in war. We must beware of spending huge amounts for armament increases, when all our attention is needed for such pressing domestic problems as unemployment and lack of opportunity...
Great Britain, like the rest of warring Europe, has had a strict taboo since war began on the broadcasting of weather news, because of its likely value to enemy airmen. But last week frosty Sir John Reith, press-dodging boss of Britain's censors, melted sufficiently to let BBC tell the world a bit about British weather.* Said the BBC newscaster to folks at home & abroad: "We have been having the coldest spell for 46 years. Actually, it began a fortnight before Christmas. . . . London one day had 25 degrees of frost. The Thames was frozen over . . . from Teddington...
...certainly is sweet music to report that these rumors are all wet, that Hines is still the only man playing jazz who keeps up really original ideas, and does a great many of them in dynamics of rhythm rather than in strict melody. He does the weirdest off-beat stuff you would want to hear--climbs way out on a limb, counts the clever, but still manages to get back in time for the next eight bar sequence. This is piano that isn't pretty, pre-calculated, or trite. It's some of the guttlost and best jazz I have...