Word: rigid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made to serve. One is to distribute reviews evenly among the prominent volumes of the prominent publishing houses. This assures a wide range of books much as a lottery involves a wide range of numbers. It is a method to which business harmony demands a partial but not a rigid conformity. Again, it is possible to select the volumes for review from among the most widely advertised books of the month. A college public, however, would be the first to realize this a specious device. On the other hand, it can be assumed that the student is interested chiefly...
...United States at present our rigid immigration laws, while intended to affect permanent immigrants, make it extremely difficult, in some cases, for foreign students to come to this country for a three or four year period to study, though they may have no intention whatsoever of a permanent sojourn. The law requires a foreign student desiring to enter the United States outside the quota of his country first to furnish proof that he has been admitted to an American educational institution, and second, what is more difficult, to establish proof to the American consul that he intends to return...
Alabamans recalled that Governor Brandon had been elected four years ago on a platform calling for rigid enforcement of the Prohibition laws, but that in office he had pardoned many liquor violators. Then too, as everyone knows, his was the voice that boomed untiringly before the 1924 Democratic National Convention in Manhattan: "Twenty-foah votes foah Un-da-wood...
...Soviet Academy For Political Clowns opened its doors at Moscow last week under the rigid supervision of the State. Shrewd, Dictator Stalin has long since instructed his subordinates to see that in every Communist parade there shall be funnymen dressed as "President Coolidge," "King George V," "Capital," etc. Amid deep Communist bellymirth "President Coolidge," refuses to "recognize" a "Russian Bear," trips over it and falls sprawling...
Together with Walter Camp of Yale in 1889, he drew up the first set of rigid eligibility rules in the history of college athletics. They called a meeting of the old Intercollegiate Football Association,± urged the adoption of their code. Their rules were accepted several years later...