Word: strictness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...desire to emphasize the necessity of economy, both for our new Nationalist Government (TIME, Oct. 29) and in our private lives. I hope that all members of this government will practice strict economy and avoid bad habits. Don't degenerate! Even our highest officials should do their own marketing, and their wives should do the family cooking...
...official announcement of what took place at the session is very sketchy and throws but little light on the coaches plans for this crucial week. A policy of strict secrecy will in all probability be maintained until Saturday, and any shakeups or changes in tactics will be revealed to the public only when the Crimson and Blue come together...
...produced a belated but powerful effect on the Academy, for it brought the appointment in 1817 of Major Thayer as superintendent, and an increase of the enrolment to 260. The easy-going discipline of the first years gave way to military exactitude, and this strict master issued precepts of education that were long and thoroughly successful. His Roman sternness lost the Academy one type of genius, of Edgar Allen Poe was dismissed after eight months of stormy revolt; but under Major Thayer, Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee learned lessons that helped at least the latter to his military ascendancy...
...Internal Revenue Department, or of a separate department created for the purpose, shall always be able through Federal detectives and policemen to reach into every hamlet, and to every ward, and to every purlieu of a large city, and use the leverage of an intermittently lax and strict enforcement of the law against would-be dealers in liquor and their patrons, he will wield a sinister power, prospect of which should make anxious the friends of free constitutional government...
Thus British Labor now stands for a broad, fraternal pacifism, embracing all nations; and for a strict exclusion from its doctrines of all tenets more advanced than those of Socialism...