Word: strictness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ascetic, heretic-burning John Calvin was stern, hard and alien to a boisterous young country in a nature-taming age. Calvinism insisted on 1) the total depravity of man, 2) a God who, for His own good reasons, irrevocably divided all mankind into the Elect and the Damned, 3) strict "blue laws...
...Strict immigration curbs keep Australia rather empty, but safe for seven million inhabitants who prefer kangaroos to competition. Even when it came to picking the King's Governor General for the Dominion, the Australian Labor Party wanted no "foreigners" to succeed the Duke of Gloucester (whose chief of staff had been charged with an unfair labor practice after a row with his valet). So Prime Minister Joseph B. Chifley, an ex-locomotive engineer, produced from the Labor Party's own marsupial pouch the new Governor General, William John McKell, Prime Minister of New South Wales...
...course colleges could avoid the tax by booting out enough of those students not so fortunate as to be residents of Massachusetts and putting further admissions on a strict quota basis. The bill was designed to encourage precisely this action. Its framers feel that local boys and girls are being denied their fair share of the state's admittedly outstanding educational opportunities. Failing to attain its primary intent, the bill would secure to the state a few millions of additional revenue as consolation for its flouted sovereignty...
Craftsmen and clerics alike obey a strict and simple regimen of devotion during their three months on Iona. Throughout the rest of the year both groups follow a daily Rule, and meet at intervals. While the Iona craftsmen spend their nine months on the mainland at their regular jobs, the ministers-each of whom has signed up for two years-go forth to preach in small towns, organize community projects in crowded industrial cities, or work in parishes that' are trying to apply the lona principles...
...Strict on Attendance...