Word: rigidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...part, says Macintosh, the colleges are to blame. Many of them fail to learn enough about their students before admitting them, nor do they pay enough attention to them once they are there. Students need guidance, especially during freshman year. What they find, too often, is a drab and rigid schedule, overcrowded classes, comparatively inexperienced and uninspiring teachers-for "in a curious way a tradition seems to have grown up that it is somewhat beneath the dignity of a full professor to stoop to teach freshmen." A further discouragement: "In some institutions it is the practice...
Leader Schuman, proposed an amendment cutting military appropriations about 4%. They had been so directed by a rigid mandate of their party meeting in June...
There are three lines of pillboxes around Changchun. At the outermost, Nationalist soldiers subject every departing refugee to rigid inspection. The authorities are glad to see civilians leave, since there will be fewer to feed, but no one may take anything metallic such as pots or pans (scrap for bullets), gold or silver (representing forbidden speculation or flight of currency) or salt (vital commodity...
...century's end, what had once been lively and original in Boston's thought became rigid and eccentric. The cradle of the American revolution gradually became the couch of gouty conservatism. "Its dominant mind," remarked Van Wyck Brooks, "was a dry seabeach where all the creatures of history had deposited their shells." And its last great thinker, Henry Adams, sadly noted that "Boston seemed to offer no market for educated labour...
...wrestled with his soul. The story around Washington was that he went to his old boss, George Marshall, about three months ago. The pressure for his candidacy had built up until it was almost irresistible. Ike felt that he would have to accept the call. But to the rigid and uncompromising Marshall, such an act on the part of a fellow Army officer would be a deed of disloyalty to their commander in chief, Harry Truman-who also wanted the job. Ike thought it over for 24 hours and went in to see the President through a side door...