Word: rigid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a new boy arrives at Shawnigan Lake, he is known as a "shadow" and is placed in the hands of an older "substance." At first, the shadow can do no wrong and his substance is punished in his place. But the shadow soon learns to stand at rigid attention whenever he meets his headmaster, and to make his bed without a wrinkle...
...stretched thongs in an open courtyard in Lahore, half naked, her head "wrung steeply back, her legs rigid in a convulsion as of birth, a woman lay dead...
Director of Athletics William J. Bingham '16, in his role of national chairman of the Football Rules Committee, last night ordered more rigid enforcement of clipping regulations, which, he said, are being violated "too frequently...on too many eastern gridirons...
...Boston for their 66th annual convention. Some exhibits of new equipment for the trade: the "Jewel Box" ("a gem of a casket") with a semicircular peephole and well-padded velvet and satin interior; the "Blickens 4 in 1 Positioner," an elaborate arrangement of clamps and bars for forcing a rigid body into a suitable position of repose...
Monro said yesterday that Harvard, along with other universities, protested the requirement because "it would complicate enormously the paper work on veteran students and also would impose on the university a rigid and undesirable attendance policy...