Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Complementary to the revised curri- culum is the new plan of admissions previously announced and applied for the first time this year. The plan has the purpose of raising the quality of students admitted so that the more stringent demands of the new curriculum can be met. The admission board will decide on the basis of the candidate's college grades and the records of those admitted from the same college over a seven to ten year period, whether he is a good risk...
...analyze exactly what Mr. Lippmann proposes to do, once he has applied social control instead of overhead direction. He declares that there must be mobility of capital. But if capital is to be mobile, it must be secure. "Thus there must be required stringent liability on the part of promoters for the worth and good faith of the securities they issue . . ." And further capital must not become "entrenched in certain favored corporate structures." Therefore "the limited liability corporation must be deprived of the right to retain profits and invest them, . . . not according to the judgment of the market...
...Others who have remained at home, as Robert Frost* and the late Vachel Lindsay, have managed on their starvation rations to work out a poetry that presents pinched versions of reality recognizable to other protestant Americans. Still others, fed up with starvation, if not with protest, chew on the stringent cud of their inner man. Among U. S. poets who chew nutritious cuds are Southern Classicist Allen Tate and Northern Romantic Wallace Stevens...
...respect, even by brokers. But fortnight ago Bill Douglas actually was promoted to SEChairman. Last week, therefore, when he returned from vacation on Cape Cod to take over his new job in Washington, all Wall Street wondered whether the Policeman's Billy would not soon be whacking out stringent new reforms...
...sooner had he taken office than he asserted his long-held opinion that Illinois insurance laws were a hodgepodge mostly written in 1869 and the only thing to do with them was to clean them all off the statute books. After two years' work a code stringent enough to suit Director Palmer was drafted by two University of Illinois professors and introduced in the Legislature. The Senate killed it twice, in 1935 and 1936. But the bill which finally went to Governor Horner last week was unchanged in these essential provisions...