Word: rigid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...change in Soc Sci 4 "indicates that there is some experimentation, and this is a good thing...The biggest vice of the present system is that it has tended to be too rigid," according to Carl Kaysen, member of the Committee...
...first Prado hiked wages and the budget too abruptly, and the U.S. recession dropped commodity prices: copper 44%, cotton 25%. The Peruvian sol dropped from 19 per $1 to 25. But Prado fell back on his banker's training, hiked customs as high as 200% on luxuries, clamped rigid reserve requirements on banks and stabilized...
Hard-Working Parrots. But the flaws in the Russian system are huge. Dogma is injected into almost all subjects. Teachers may be scholars, but they are expected to follow rigid syllabuses, have far less freedom to interpret their subjects than U.S. instructors. Rote learning, abhorred by some U.S. educators, is carried to extremes. Class discussion, perhaps overemphasized in the U.S., is absent in Russia, and students are not encouraged to think beyond lines laid down by teachers. Cramming for exams swallows a large proportion of the students' time, and since questions are drawn by lot from lists circulated weeks...
...public acclaim, most Danes ignored the words of Knud Lauritzen, a private shipowner, who declared that the steel plates on the Hans Hedtoft should have been welded, not riveted, because the riveting of plates on a rigid frame does not afford enough resistance to ice pressure. The criticism was passed off as the embittered words of a private operator who would rather the government chartered his ships than build...
...takes off, it can switch its gas jet from side to side, correcting any tendency to veer off course. But solid-fuel rockets have no separate combustion chamber, only a nozzle to form the gases into a high-speed jet. Usually the nozzle is an integral part of the rigid cylinder that contains the fuel...