Word: rigidities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, 2,500 men convened- cool men. the U. S. Congress of Surgeons. They had with them roomfuls of technical exhibits, reams of data to exchange, scores of lectures to deliver. Drs. N. D. Royle and J. I. Hunter, of Australia, reported jointly discovering a remedy for rigid paralysis. Anti-vivisectionists writhed at hearing this discovery was made possible only by long experiment on small animals. The use of ethylene was explained- a new anesthetic discovered in Chicago when white carnations bowed their heads, slept, because this substance had leaked into the greenhouse air from illuminating gas. Administered to humans...
...Long residence, during the impressionable years of boyhood, in a street whose name carries such associations, cannot fail to have an influence! Freud has become an emperor, one around whom legends begin to accrete, who holds enlightened but absolute sway in his realm and is animated by a rigid sense of duty. He has become a despot who will not tolerate the slightest deviation from his doctrine; holds councils behind closed doors; and tries to ensure, by a sort of pragmatic sanction, that the body of psychoanalytical teaching shall remain an indivisible whole...
...great rigid dirigibles do not roll or pitch as much as the smaller "Blimps" or nonrigid airships, but they develop a peculiar squirming, twisting motion and they always give a sensation of violent strain, with the hull quite plainly laboring under the force of the wind...
Professor Greene was asked to show why classical students should develop into better all around scholars than other men. "There are several reasons", he said. "The first is the good effects that the rigid discipline of first year Latin courses have upon the average man. He has to study regularly and accurately. He cannot bluff. His ignorance is always immediately displayed if he has come to class unprepared. Consequently he develops good habits which continue to affect his study of all other subjects...
...lordship had been reading The Life and Letters of Walter Hines Page, and that he was very fond of Mark Twain, had read some volumes twice. The secretary also said that numerous presents, ranging from chewing gum upwards, had been sent to him by firms and individuals. The rigid royal rule of not accepting gifts from strangers was adhered to and the gifts were all returned by registered mail, allegedly costing the Baron no trifling sum for postage. It was stated that from 10 to 40 letters 'daily are received from admiring females whose sole request...