Word: strictness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young as it is, the mere fact of special limitation was bound to cause the abandonment of the strict democratic precepts as soon as the mass of the population realized their opportunities and began to take advantage of them in large numbers. Already, while this stage is still incomplete, restrictions are steadily becoming more stringent. The standards are no longer those of wealth and family, and aim, rather unsurely as yet, towards other based on the mental and moral qualities of the individual, but nevertheless education in the colleges at least, is no longer for all. An aristocracy is again...
...Lindsay, he attempts, in a series of essays on Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, William Williams, Kenneth Burke, Hart Crane, and Jean Toomer, to resolve the future. Mr. Munson writes these appreciations with un- derstanding, but in a workable argot, at once colloquial and technical, that is not, in its strict attention to the details under consideration, designed for the pleasure of the casual reader...
Earlier in the day the Senator gave an interview to a CRIMSON reporter, and when the question of corruption, as exposed in the government was mentioned, Senator Walsh made it clear that the situation does not call for legislation at all, but strict enforcement of the laws already on the statue books. "We have all the laws we need," said the Senator, smiling. "All we need is honestly to enforce them. That goes for prohibition as well as other laws...
...Clifton, "the girls all seem to be growing thinner, and we cannot keep that regulation. Our only definite stipulation is that a girl have 'B' posture to qualify for crew, the rest depends on her natural ability." For three weeks before the class races, the oarswomen keep strict training: to bed at 10:30 p. m., a 15-minute nap each day, no eating between meals, no coffee, only one helping of wholesome food at meals...
Fulminating against the twelve-year term, General Groener cried: "It is inhuman! Our young men enter the army enthusiastically, but after two or three years many begin to get restless under the necessarily strict discipline. Being unable to obtain a discharge the men become morose and despondent, with the result that some end their lives in fits of insanity...