Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...governmentally-controlled) and turned over to the American press representative. He also has access, in some cases, to an official press bureau of the government, and to a government-inspired or-controlled local press. What material he assembles perhaps then must run the gauntlet of a more or less stringent censorship, and be transmitted over cable and radio facilities also nationally controlled. Nearly every source of information is slightly biased, every avenue of communication may be closed by one or another government if the news is displeasing. The news is further filtered through American editorial desks, cager, in many cases...
...deprecated the profit motive as a guide to business activity. It has attempted to limit profits, to set up competing industries, and to foster projects entailing the limitation of production. Even more important than its actual limitations have been its Tugwellian threats of price fixing and of more stringent control of all of the activities of private business...
Since the formal inauguration of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, in 1904, a wavering of the standards for admission has been noticed by impartial observers. There is no reason why admission requirements for the Graduate School should be any less stringent than those for A.B. or S.B. candidates. To eliminate this bugbear of graduate students, and to reduce the present mortality among inadequately prepared men, the Administration should maintain strictly the language requirements for admission to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...would not out of necessity be condemned to a year of polishing. That is, however, an ideal which, although pretty enough, will be long in the coming. The definite imposition of more mature work in the Freshman courses would be a reasonable step in the direction of more stringent entrance requirements, helping all the while to bridge the present gap between the first and second college years...
...escaping the realization that an efficient system of state inspection would have mitigated many of the evils that have made the present trials a necessity. In many cases, although state laws required periodic bank examinations, inspectors were inefficient in their duties and the laws governing investment of deposits not stringent enough. This crisis in banking has impressed the public with the realizations that a bank inspection cannot be superficial if the depositor is to be adequately protected. The general laxity of banking laws made it easy for the czars of high finance to indulge their drunken greed in the field...