Word: stricting
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...Strict enforcement of legal rights brings about foreclosures, forced sales and losses to the owner and mortgagees alike. Those familiar with the present situation can see no reason why mortgages should yield 5½% when other securities are yielding 4% and banks find difficulty in lending call money at 1%. Above all things, mortgages cannot be expected to yield in interest more than the productive possibilities of the properties...
...member of a major sport team would appear to be under a tacit agreement to cooperate towards victory by keeping training. Yet men are not always out to win; they are often out merely to enjoy a sport. Some men will get more out of a sport by keeping strict training, others not. It is obvious that athletes who break training are lessening the chances of their team for victory, and it is equally apparent that they are at the same time lessening their own chances of staying on the team, as well as running the risk of lowering themselves...
...which failed to discover why the Maine sank. During the War he commanded all U. S. subchasers in European waters. He married his cousin, is childless. Ashore he putters around a flower garden, smacks over a dish of boned shad, keeps a voluminous scrap book. Afloat he is a strict but just disciplinarian. He talks in a low, melodious drawl, never raising his voice to match his temper. Slim of stature, smiling of face, he gets his nickname from his sandy red hair, his apple cheeks. He believes ardently in big guns and big navies but does not tactlessly preach...
...Captain John Smith. Though every schoolchild knows it, present-day writers are beginning to realize that such heirloom images are fit for more than being children's playthings. English Author David Garnett has rescued Pocahontas from the textbook attic and put her in grown-up clothes. With strict fidelity to historical documents he has made a valiant try at turning a pseudo-fairy tale* into a work of art. From oblivion, a fate worse than death, Pocahontas saved one Englishman; now another, by restoring her to pristine, savage humanity, has paid the account...
These arguments are strong and as yet unanswered. The bogey of House rushing, of course, will be given a chance to raise its ugly head. But if the limitation be strict, this need not materialize. And even if it did, there is considerable question as to whether it would not be outweighed by the advantage of giving the Freshman some concrete basis for selection. Then, too, there is the fear that dining halls will be overcrowded. In answer, it is easy to point out that the same fears attended the inauguration of the present inter-House arrangement, and that with...