Word: rigidities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...June strike of the actors and the subsequent struggle with the managers will affect the Fall season scarcely at all. With the exception of David Belasco, George M. Cohan, George Tyler and Henry Miller, the managers have admitted defeat and are casting productions under the new and slightly rigid conditions demanded by the Actors' Equity Association...
...Rigid economy in government...
Italy, since the Napoleonic Wars, has always held a fair measure of British sympathy and friendship. The present King is widely admired and respected for his democratic simplicity, his high and rigid sense of duty, his integrity of thought, his immense store of common sense for which he is ever finding a means of practical application. Like many constitutional Kings he is in reality a powerful Ruler, exerting a concealed but profound influence in the councils of State...
Experience with the Shenandoah's permanent mooring mast at Lakehurst, N. J., has convinced the U. S. Navy of the mast's immense value in anchoring rigid airships. Therefore, another mast is to be erected immediately at Tacoma, to serve as the Navy's Western station. Tests have shown that few men are needed to secure an airship to a mast, hundreds are required to take an airship in or out of a hangar; also that an airship can stay indefinitely at the mast, be refuelled and regassed there, have all but major repairs made when thus...
...really deep diver must wear a metal helmet, and either a specially-built rigid suit or else get used to one or two atmospheres excess air pressure in his breathing supply. A heavy tire may need a pressure of 100 lbs, which is not quite seven atmospheres...