Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...that he still believes that the adoption of the undergraduate rule would be a great gain to intercollegiate athletics, but that he also believes a still greater gain would be accomplished by combining with a time limitation of four years, as in our Rule 3, the more stringent measure recommended by Mr. Walter Camp, excluding students who have not resided one year at the university, to which our Rule 2 is a close approximation...
Drake '94, substitute pitcher last year, will be ruled out by a stringent undergraduate rule. Trenchard '95 and Bissell '95 are leading candidates for catchers...
...existing wrongs so keenly felt, will carry us far towards the socialistic extreme. The common law and the statutes of the several states have failed to preserve to the people their rights against the railway corporations. The Interstate Commerce Act has been found inadequate at important points. Strengthening and stringent amendments are now demanded not only by the people but by the wiser railroad managers themselves...
...More Stringent Regulation is necessary since present immigration laws have been insufficient to check these evils as (1) Entrance of diseased persons, paupers, etc.: Smith...
...while if they be infringed it will assume an undue preponderance in the play. It will not become necessary to legislate against this if the umpires will carry out the rules, as they did a year ago, but the prevailing laxity among players can only be checked by some stringent umpiring in this respect...