Word: rigid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be overrun with radical Gandhi Congressmen and preachers of sedition, with or without violence. The Indian National Congress, which opposes Federation tooth & nail, is afraid that if the native states are permitted to come in under the Constitution the entire All-India Federation will be a setup so rigid that it may take generations to overthrow the Rajas, Maharajas and Nawabs. And the 3,000.000 members of the Congress-whatever may be Saint Gandhi's mild views-believe Congress agitators who tell them that the lands of the princes and all large Indian landowners sooner or later...
Italian papers referred for the first time last week to the passo romano or Roman step, said it is done "by keeping the leg rigid and striking the foot violently against the ground...
...listen to Mr. Lee, one might think that Harvard shapes the curriculum and teaching methods in the grades and institutions of higher learning. This, of course, is not true. Harvard standards are sometimes too rigid for high school graduates to meet. To conform to these requirements, schools must retain the classics, the so-called "dead languages", and many other subjects which may not seem practical in the light of present day trends. Still the colleges are offering an almost unlimited amount of courses, of every kind and description, which, according to President Robert M. Hutchins, of the University of Chicago...
When U. S. citizens first purchased medicines from the corner apothecary, they gave little thought to the training of the dispenser. Today state laws require all pharmacists to be registered, and before they are granted licenses they must pass rigid examinations--examinations that require careful training. To provide this training 70 U. S. colleges of pharmacy annually dispense pharmaceutical learning to 10,000 students to add to the ranks of our 100,000 registered pharmacists...
Last week New York's Bishop William Thomas Manning, who faces a convention fight if his rigid ideas on marriage and divorce are to prevail over those of churchmen who would liberalize Episcopal canons, let loose a blast at the C. L. I. D. program. He wrote to Episcopal journals (one of which, The Churchman, declined to print his words and editorially questioned his ethics in giving his letter simultaneously to the daily press): "The C. L. I. D. is ... militantly partisan and radical. ... It is evident that these meetings are not for judicial consideration, or for social education...