Word: strictest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taxes the country could stand. Normal standards of what was popular no longer counted, said he; furthermore, one of his aims was to curtail civilian demands. "There must be restrictions directed against wasteful or unnecessary use of resources, restrictions which limit consumption of a long list of articles, the strictest economy all along the line...
...Constitution, some from statutes dating back to the 18th Century, many from laws passed for Woodrow Wilson before and during World War I and never repealed, others from New Deal laws. Last week Attorney General Frank Murphy and his Department of Justice attorneys were under the strictest White House orders not to talk publicly about the extent of these powers...
...presentation of a foreign Ambassador to the President of the U. S. is usually heavy business, ribboned with red-tape, bound by strictest protocol. But one day last week ribbon and tape went out the White House window when a big black limousine, tagged DPL-I, swung around the little pavement-circle before the Executive wing. Out stepped six-foot, rosy-cheeked Philip Henry Kerr (pronounced Carr), Marquess of Lothian, Lord Newbattle, Earl of Lothian, Baron Jedburgh, Earl of Ancrum, Baron Kerr of Nisbet, Baron Long-Newton and Dolphingston, Viscount of Brien, Baron Kerr of Newbattle and Baron Ker. This...
Berlin officials announced: "All German naval forces have the strictest instructions to act in accordance with the rules established by international law." They suggested the Athenia might have run into a British mine. To this the British Admiralty retorted there were no British mines 200 miles west of Ireland. Retorted Berlin: "It is likely that a British submarine fired the torpedo as a propaganda measure to influence United States neutrality...
...mistaken in tracing the source of the trouble in the admissions system "per sc." The cross-section and merit principles upon which this system is based are not incompatible. For, contrary to Freshman claims, the latter in theory will never be sacrificed to the former. For under the strictest application of the system, a good scholastic or activities record will always take precedence over such considerations as from what schools or from what part of the country the applicant may come. However, in the actual practice of this policy, the Freshmen have a legitimate complaint...