Word: rigid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Essence of Brattism: "Impose reasonable conditions and enforce them . . . firmly. . . . The control of liquor must be human, not superhuman; firm, not rigid; slow, not fast; democratic in aims, but individualistic in application...
When Candidate George of Georgia was named and the bands played "Dixie," Candidate Smith hummed the tune, smiling. Then Nominator Roosevelt began. Candidate Smith fingered his watch-chain, bit his cigar, blinked at the ceiling, took out the cigar, stared at the ceiling. The others sat rigid, occasionally stealing looks at him. During the directly personal part, about his "kindly heart" and understanding of "the average man," Candidate Smith looked overheated, troubled...
Airship, semirigid: Form maintained by rigid or jointed keel, together with internal pressure...
...Airship, rigid: Form maintained by a rigid structure...
...regime has been successful, partly because he blended efficiency with tradition: it would have been dangerous to apply rigid card-index methods to the University of Virginia, where Southern bloods are wont to loll on the lawn and contemplate the architectural works of Founder Thomas Jefferson...