Word: rigidities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...officers and crew of the Shenandoah were skilled and competent operators of rigid airships...
...officer of the survivors, declared that Commander Lansdowne had not protested against the fatal flight, that the disaster was an inevitable accident. He closed with the declaration: "Although we are survivors of one of the worst air accidents that has ever occurred, we nevertheless have not lost faith in rigid airships, and are still of the opinion that rigid airships are of a great deal of value for naval and commercial purposes as well...
...planes. The Allied super-aces for the whole War period were: France, Lieutenant Rene Fonck (78 planes) ; Britain, Major E. W. Mannock (73 planes) ; the U. S-, Captain "Eddie" Rickenbacker (22 planes, 3 balloons). The tabulation of scores was accomplished under different rules by the various combatant countries. A rigid "comparison" is not possible...
NATURE--Is one of those words in which the eloquence of lovers shines with success. Nothing is more persuasively employed than the appeals made to it, against the rigid prescriptions of duty. Thus, when a lover makes use of this trite argument: "Either nature is imperfect in itself, by giving us inclinations that the laws condemn, or the laws are justly accusable or too great severity, in condemning inclinations given us by nature", this profound sophistry means: "Since you have scruples, my game is to remove them. Reasin may give itself what airs it pleases; but if you love...
...Every Fascist must submit to rigid discipline. Only thus can Fascism carry out its work . . . under competition among the peoples in the arena of world civilization...