Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rith had "engaged in Communistic propaganda." For years B'nai B'rith expenditures in Germany have averaged a million marks a year. Three weeks ago an order was issued forbidding Jewish organizations of any sort to hold any meetings whatever for 60 days. So stringent was this rule that if so many as five Jews should meet over a herring in a public cafe they might be liable to arrest...
...your interesting editorial regarding the weaknesses of stringent residence requirements for a Bachelor's degree, you might have greatly strengthened your case by referring to Chicago's example. Chicago graduates would have reason to be somewhat amused at this concern over a three-year residence requirement; since 1934, at least four students have satisfied the A.B. requirements at Chicago in two years (six quarters) or less, there have been a number of cases of students receiving the degree in three years (nine quarters or less and excellent students rarely expect to be forced to spend four years (twelve quarters) working...
...Senator Johnson who believes it to be unnecessarily rigid with its signal avoidance of giving the President very much discretionary power. The automatic operation of such a severe law might conceivably result in stirring up retaliatory measures or vene war with us, if the belligerent were seriously compromised by stringent trade regulations. Nevertheless, it is hard to see how any extension of the President's influence could mollify this objection if neutrality legislation is to have any teeth at all. A neutrality law on the books before war looms on the horizon certainly retains more of the essence of neutrality...
...Spanish and not dead is Maurice Utrillo and last week under Britain's stringent libel laws he brought suit against the Tate Gallery, its director, James Bolivar Manson, and the former Lord Mayor of London, Sir William Waterlow, whose firm had printed the catalog. The Tate Gallery's smart lawyers quickly ap peared before the Master in Chambers and obtained an Order for Security Costs, which means that Plaintiff Utrillo must deposit a bond showing that he is able to pay the costs of the trial before his case can be heard. Even so, lawyers knowing the history...
...college, like any other small unit in society is open to attacks from without. This small concession to the outside world admittedly has little beyond vague nuisance value to the liberal, self-disciplined undergraduate majority. Particularly in view of the recent stormy history and stringent regulation, the price is not exhorbitant and the return is impressive. In this way the University has protection against the turbulent, ill-disciplined minority who might otherwise raise havoc with its fair name and hence with the much-prized liberties of the majority. As with any truly liberal law, the majority, in this case most...