Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are some who feel that it would be a wise step to force the H.A.A. to balance its budget on this year's program, to make the stringent economies which such a policy would necessitate. Such retrenchments, they feel, would tend to reduce the overemphasis on athletics, and moreover the importance of the coach. A man's independence they claim, is not improved by constant supervision. And with this consideration in mind, they argue that the H.A.A. should not be allowed to extend its budget through another year, an action which would render much easier the balancing...
...Vestris with a loss of 112 lives in 1928. No party to the convention is the U. S. Both the International Seamen's Union and the American Federation of Labor backed the fight against it in Congress, claiming that U. S. shipping inspection laws are already more stringent than the proposals of the International Convention. They claim the following jokers exist in the Convention's wording: i) A safety certificate from a foreign vessel's home port would prevent additional inspection by U. S. inspectors, as is now possible. 2) Present provisions of the Seamen...
...this restriction is doubtless necessary but the question of admission is at best a feeble half of the whole problem of the dropped and readmitted Freshmen. The failure of this year's stringent entrance policy may be due to an unavoidable fluctuation but most on servers feel that as long as these men are cooped together in Shepherd and Claverly Halls and are confronted with the obstacles of College indifference and group lassitude, that failure will be inevitable. There are patent signs in Dean Hanford's report, and in dean Leighton's supplementary suggestion for a more personal contact between...
...thing the company's stores are closed on Saturday, Sunday, Monday, holidays, on days preceding and following holidays, and every day from 3 p. m. until the following 10 a. m. For another thing the Government, firmly believing that mixed drinks are bad for the stomach, has issued stringent regulations providing that, without special permission, only two kinds of mixed drinks may be sold, the Martini Cocktail and the Manhattan Cocktail. In Italy (though not in Finland) it is against, the law to sell as a "Martini Cocktail" any beverage not containing vermouth made by the Italian firm...
...Received from Secretary of State for India Sir Samuel Hoare's intimations: 1) that the stringent Indian Civil Disobedience Ordinances which were due to expire July 3 will be extended indefinitely; 2) that Indians, whether they like it or not, will receive a Federal Constitution and a set of state constitutions all enacted "as a single bill" by the London Parliament. Ignoring St. Gandhi and the entire Indian Nationalist movement, Sir Samuel thus served notice that steamroller tactics will be used in "granting India a greater measure of freedom...