Word: strictness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of Walton's strict beliefs, the George School is as informal as a public high school. The boys dress in brightly colored sweaters, the girls have adopted the New Look. Students and teachers eat and work and worship together; and they all attend informal dances on Saturday night. Students of other faiths make up about half of George's enrollment...
...Would be on a strict lend-lease basis...
...There is danger, too," warned the full-wigged Lord Chancellor, lantern-jawed Viscount Jowitt, "in too strict reliance on the words of the Prayer Book. . . . It seems to me that the essence of the view of Christian marriage is that any children born into a family should be brought up and nurtured in the Christian faith. That is 'not the same thing as saying that a marriage is not consummated unless children are procreated, or that procreation is the principal end of marriage...
...This country wants a program of strict and workable neutrality in which all exports whatsoever to a country at war shall be forbidden, and it is the duty of Congress to put this through ..." (December...
Exporters, as expected, were dead set against the controls. They claimed that 1) most European nations already had strict controls to prevent their dollars from being squandered, 2) the red tape would slow up European recovery by delaying the shipment of needed goods. But the Administration hinted that it may soon put still other nations under export license...