Word: strictly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wants no more. When he first joined the Institute, its officials asked him to name the salary he expected. His figure was so low that the officials had to raise it to preserve Institute standards. But if he is indifferent about his own money, Albert Einstein has a strict moral sense about other people's. His associates were amused last week because he had put his foot down against too many free copies of The Evolution of Physics being scattered around Princeton. It did not seem fair to the publishers...
Because Painter Blanche has covered whole epochs in his previous writing, and does not want to go over the same ground in this, he does not follow a strict chronological narrative in Portraits of a Lifetime, but skips through time & space as his memory prompts him. The result is a little disconcerting to readers who do not know his previous volumes. At one moment the artist may be telling some antique anecdote about Renoir which drifts imperceptibly into comment about the political situation in present-day France, of which he strongly disapproves...
Brought up in a Texas convent, Miss Velez disapproves of the institution of co-education. "It's much more fun when there are strict rules to break and you have to sneak out to got romance. When boys and girls are together all the time it spoils things...
...fall, the Hygiene Department has set up no special department to care for cases of this sort. They are handled in a routine way, the doctors making the diagnoses and offering the patient treatment in Stillman Infirmary, or if he prefers, entrusting him to a reputable Boston specialist. Only strict secrecy, in the tradition of medical ethics, distinguishes venereal treatment from the treatment of mumps or any other ailment...
...prominent firm, the business of which was mostly concerned with banks and other respectable institutions, has significance. To the conservatives it must mean the crashing of the old and established foundations, the giving way to the new order. For the S.E.C. it is a bolster to their insistence upon strict regulation of national securities and exchange members and a great aid to their program for the complete reorganization of exchanges. To the New Dealers in Washington and Wall Street it must signify a definite victory over both the Republican dichards and bad boys of the financial world...