Word: strictly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...might be expected, some foreigners are utterly bewildered by the informality of U.S. schools, and a few Americans grow restive in the strict foreign classroom. But in general, the exchange teachers make the most of their year...
...portrait painter. At first he borrowed poses and tony backgrounds from his step father's mezzotints, and tricks of color and modeling from his elders in Boston's portrait-painting fraternity. But he soon found he could go farther by paying scant attention to the modes and strict attention to his models. He thought nothing of spending 100 hours on a portrait, advanced as much by elbow grease as by genius. Early in his career he reached a pedestrian conclusion that lent wings to his art: he decided that his paintings were "almost always good in proportion...
...Ouest also remembered that les -vingt-quatre heures mean a grand influx of 1) hundreds of thousands of visitors, and 2) coin of the realm. So they worked out a compromise between dollars and danger. They widened the road, beefed up the grandstand, and optimistically wrote some strict rules for cars and drivers...
...Sinclair Armstrong, does a competent job in the main areas of responsibility outlined by Congress in the Securities Act of 1933. Such evils as rigged markets have disappeared, and Wall Street, which once fought bitterly against Government interference, now stands solidly behind SEC's work. Backed by strict laws, SEC makes sure that all new issues by listed corporations are accompanied by registration statements giving enough financial information to investors...
...Strict functionalism was a necessary purgative," he says, "but after all, there is nothing esthetic about an WOMB CHAIR) enema." Agreeing that modern architecture has won the day, he says: "Now is the time to examine the presuppositions...