Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...aviation because of its risks and expense, he explained last night that he believed that these two objections could be obviated. Plans are now under way to make it possible for the Harvard Aeronautical Society to have the use of a plane without great cost; and the adoption of stringent flying rules would do much to lessen the danger...
...judged from the fact that the first restrictions did not appear until fifty years later, when students were forbidden to eat "plumb-cake," what this delicacy may be is not known but the authorities evidently took a dislike to it, for in 1722 we find a more stringent edict: "No provision for Plumb Cake, Roasted, Boyled, or Baked Meates or Pyres of any kind shall be made by any Commencer." They further stipulated that "Distilled Lyquours" were to be seized by tutors. What these gentlemen did with the confiscated property is not told, but an entry in the diary...
...true that none of the men will express any open regret at the disbanding of the S. A. T. C.; to rise, eat, work, and go to bed at the call of the bugle was not a pleasant experience for those unaccustomed to such a stringent routine. As an attempt to combine academic with military work, the S. A. T. C. cannot be adjudged a success; the level of scholarship as shown by the records at the Office has visibly declined. But in spite of all these difficulties, real or imagined, let us hope that the days which have been...
...throat competition gave way in the late eighties to public control. Since that time concession after concession has been demanded of the railroads until just before our entrance in the war they were scarcely able to make both ends meet. Rates had become so low and restrictions so stringent that all improvements or new investments were impossible. The point had been reached where private industry and even a fair transportation efficiency were incompatible...
...loafer in peace times is a drag upon society. In war he is a parasite who endangers the safety of the state. Three commonwealths have officially put an end to war-time idleness. In the remainder of the country, where loafing must be equally frowned upon, the same stringent measures are necessary. With the Government drafting millions into military service, the vagrant poor and the idle rich have no place in social organization. The effectiveness of the war's prosecution depends upon the gainful employment of everyone able to be of real service, at home as well as abroad...