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...from the program have requested and been qualified for flight duty. Over 1,000 other applicants for flying training have been turned down for physical and other reasons. The eye requirement to enter flight school is rigidly enforced--20-20 uncorrected in both eyes. Other physical requirements are also stringent, but officials said that this is not the reason for so few applicants...
...More stringent grading is a reason for one of the more interesting findings in the survey. Despite the fact that the size of the department has decreased in the past four years, and much of the dilletante element has dropped out, the overall level of marks has not changed...
...police, an old-fashioned hair-pulling and biting scene between Proserpina and her jealous rival, and near the end, a rooftop death battle between a stranger and Proserpina's evil friends. Musically, Composer Castro offered only a dissonant mosaic. There were vigorous Latin rhythms and fresh and sometimes stringent harmonies, but no big, powerful themes, and only snatches of anything hummable...
...There is an impression abroad that religion first and last is a comforting and comfortable affair. Twentieth century Christianity has lost the stringent note. For most of us there is no cross in it, no abstinence, no subjugation of the flesh in the interests of the spirit. People are not made to feel when they look at the church and its program that Christianity is a creed for heroes or that to embrace it means 'living dangerously' . . . The man on the street has little reason to think, that Christians are a company of people committed to the turning...
...Britain, which used to ship abroad 44 million tons a year, no longer produces enough coal to stoke its own fires and furnaces. The new Tory government had laid down the most stringent household coal rationing in the nation's history: an average of less than two tons for the entire winter...