Word: rigid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Banned in Japan at one time or another since 1936 have been: N. Y. Times, Current History, American Mercury, TIME. At present Japanese postal authorities maintain a rigid censorship...
...Frederick Hausen Lund of Temple University announced that he had tried ESP experiments under rigid control (cards beyond reach and out of sight) on 596 students, found no instance of significantly high scoring...
...fumes began to rise toward the cage. The pig jumped, squealed, flapped its ears, rolled over. Like Allen Foster, the San Quentin pig died hard. Nine times the pig staggered to its feet and collapsed. The ninth time, three minutes and 25 seconds later, its corkscrew tail straightened out rigid in death. After the gas was blown out and the pig removed, opinions remained divided. Most of the newspapermen spectators professed themselves horrified. Queasy Warden Court Smith confessed that he had turned his eyes away. But W. H. Rockingham of the State Department of Architecture, who had supervised the construction...
Text books are practically abandoned under this progressive system, von Baravalle said. The teacher can adapt the course to the interest of his class when he is not bound by a rigid text...
...tribal chief waded in, waving a bewitched fan. After him followed a few huge Fijians who grasped three-and four-foot sharks by the tail, picked them up thrashing, quietly kissed them-either on the belly or just in front of the caudal fin. Thereupon each ugly shark went rigid, was put ashore never to move again...