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Administrator Williams promptly put the University on a strict six-months' probation, refrained from blacklisting it entirely only because the University's new board of supervisors and Acting President Hebert appeared to be making an honest effort to clean house...
...thick were war spectres in committee meetings that the pension ghost could hardly edge in. Chief concerns of the convention were strict neutrality and preparedness. Officially the embargo fight was left to Congress, though a random poll of 423 Legionnaires showed that 66% were opposed to the act as it stands...
...strict identities, as twain...
...brawny George Johnson, head of Catholic University's education department and educational director of the National Catholic Welfare Conference. Four years ago Dr. Johnson started a model elementary school attached to Catholic U.'s Sisters College, which trains nuns to teach in parochial schools. Aware that the strict curriculum of parochial schools (which enroll half of U. S. Catholic children) repelled many a Catholic parent, Dr. Johnson decided to take a leaf from progressives...
...from the native point of view, it particularly delighted British reviewers by a mixture of sympathy and picturesqueness not unlike that in the novels of Julia Peterkin. In their primitive state (the subject of some 100 early pages) the Kikuyu people were well-built, well-adjusted savages, who observed strict tribal laws combining communal ownership of land with private initiative as regards goats and wives, the latter being worth about 30 of the former plus a batch of sugar-cane beer. Occasionally they fought a battle with the tall, handsome Masai. Their medicine man shrewdly advised them on all important...