Word: rigidities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...simple-minded; he was one of the greatest brains produced in the Civil War, ruled by a rigid integrity. His preliminary internal struggle on the question of loyalty to his state as against loyalty to the Union was decided not by a puritanical conception of duty, as General Maurice would have one believe, but by the dictates of a high sense of personal honor. He must have realized that the life of the nation was jeopardized by the Southern secession, but when Virginia called him, he felt that he could not give his allegiance elsewhere. There is no grander picture...
...Diseases of the Eye, now being built by the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Medical School, Baltimore, Md. Said Dr. John McMullen, trachoma expert: "It is a dreadful disease. I saw a girl once who had kept her arm over her eye for 18 years-so long that it was rigid in this position, and could not be moved...
...burning fervor for the more suave encounters of Latin contestants. So long as the spectators fill football with the same excitement with which the Pilgrims fought the devil, so long as they feel that it is a dishonor to lose and a matter of conscience to win, the same rigid regime of fasting and praying will train the povitiates for self-dedication to sport. When a football match becomes the amusement of a holiday afternoon, when the bleachers abandon their zestful purpose of inspiration and guidance--, then athletics will be animated by the spirit which, whether it wins...
...world is changing so rapidly", President Hopkins said, "that we cannot adhere to any rigid thought or fixed system of belief." The modern period was called a period of greater intolerance than any period of the past...
...worker; and, a few years later, went to Vienna and took up the study of Art. There he fell under the influence of Franz Metzner, Austrian master. From that time on, his success was assured. His reputation gradually swept Europe. The chief characteristics of Mestrovic's work are a rigid simplicity of line; draperies falling in straight close folds; hard, grim faces; heads sunk low or crammed awkwardly into chests; abnormally long noses; cramped postures; elongated forms. Many of these characteristics may be traced to the influence of Metzner. Mestrovic's Madonnas are a distinct type, almost a formula. They...