Word: rigidities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Such rigid discipline of sentences produced by tricky parentheses and binding clauses has not met with favor in a liberal world. Rightly enough, the leaders of college composition have rejected the goose-step construction for the more informal expressions of thought. There seems little danger of a formal invasion of college literature, or conversation...
...longest non-stop flight by a rigid dirigible is 5,066 mi., from Friederickshafen, Germany, to Lakehurst, N.J., by the Zeppelin ZR3 (now the Los Angeles...
...upper end of Manhattan Island there are arising some gorgeous, massive buildings in an Americanized Byzantine manner- rigid facades; a squatty dome; ornate yet severe decoration. They represent the first independent stand on education ever taken by Jewry in the 2,000 years of its exile. Out of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary has grown the Yitzchok Elchanan Yeshivah, in which there will be the first Jewish college ever established in the U. S., equipped to grant "the same academic degrees as other American colleges in a background thoroughly Jewish and thoroughly American in spirit...
...fields of science, both exact and humanitarian, the restrictions are, however, not so rigid...
...national president of the Amateur Athletic Union, that the strength and vitality of athletes was being overtaxed. "We are trying to control this, however, practicing what we think are reasonable limitations on schedules and hours of training . . . . Further, the scholastic requirements for athletic competition in this conference are very rigid and these men are not permitted to spend many hours per season off the campus with athletic teams." The letter ends with a request of not enrolling Conference athletes for A. A. U. competition until these athletes have gradated from their respective universities...