Word: strictly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Student riots have caused much damage and annoyance to the citizens of Cambridge in the past," Sullivan said, "but they seem to have fallen off of late. I don't know why; may be this new generation is a little more sober." Sullivan favors strict enforcement of liquor laws...
Swarms in Bazaars. Strongman Daoud was aware that his strict Moslem people might be tempted to rash acts by their religious hostility to Communism, by the tales told by the constant stream of refugees from nearby Russian Turkistan, and by the age-old assumption among Afghans that anything to the north is barbaric. As arrival day approached, the bazaars swarmed with secret police, who questioned strangers and put suspicious persons under house arrest for the duration of the Russians' visit. Along the three-mile route from the airport into the capital, families were warned that any untoward incident might...
...carrier under the Interstate Commerce Commission regulations, Young had a fairly free hand to use its treasury for such financial dealings. But a month ago Young had this freedom clipped. A Federal Court ruled that Alleghany belonged under the jurisdiction of the Securities and Exchange Commission, whose strict rules would probably have prevented Young from using the company as he had. Last week, as Young pondered an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, he reluctantly registered Alleghany under...
...Fugue for String Quartet (1955) by Victor Yellin, teaching fellow in Music, received its first performance. It is an avowedly academic exercise in a traditional style as taught to Paris Conservatory students. A suave theme forms the basis of a strict contrapuntal texture that Yellin handled competently. Some of the harmonies, however, are questionable, and the piece ends a bit too abruptly...
...strict interpretation of the Constitution, Talmadge is of course able to make a fairly good argument that the Supreme Court does not have the power to regulate public school education. Although he lacks any depth as a political theorist, in him echoes of Thomas Jefferson and John C. Calhoun are clearly present. Talmadge sings the same songs that states' righters have sung for generations, and which to the South still seem good old tunes...