Word: rigidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acid excretions etch away calcium from the teeth. These bacteria cannot live in human saliva unless sugar is present; and since sugar does not occur in normal saliva, they must get their nourishment from food taken into the mouth. Says Dr. Hill: "When diets are followed which contain a rigid restriction of sugar, these acid-forming organisms rapidly disappear from the saliva...
Baranov's disciplinary rules were rigid. There was a parade before the flag every Sunday. Gambling was sternly forbidden. Baranov forbade prostitution, encouraged his men to live with the Aleutian girls. Men with venereal disease were banished to the woods to treat themselves with "mercurials dissolved in vodka." Moonshining was also banned, but Baranov himself kept "a vat of crab apples, rye meal, and cranberries fermenting with kvass-yeast. Any man off duty was welcome to as much of the stuff as he could hold." This brew supposedly prevented scurvy, certainly helped morale. Said Washington Irving: "He is continually...
...Alloy. The appointment of tall dapper Hiland Garfield Batcheller, 57 to boss WPB's important Iron & Steel Branch seemed to make certain that WPB would throw its hopelessly confusing priority system out the window, set up a rigid allocations plan under which each manufacturer will get a quota that sticks...
Deepest of Tsahai's home contentments was the escape from the rigid isolation of the pink-skinned world: from teachers who taught her Christian precepts, but professed no sisterly love; from girls who smiled at her with their thin buttonhole lips, as across a chasm; from visitors whose English, French or German phrases she understood, but whose meanings she could only ponder. Because her skin was brown and because she was royalty, there had never been any expansion in the invisible walls which closed around her in the pink-skinned world...
...Babe Ruth-whose magnificent coordination had chalked up 713 home runs in 22 years with the Red Sox and Yankees-retired seven years ago. Yet both managed to squeeze into their old uniforms last week. Pig raising on his Maryland farm has kept Old Barney's weight down. Rigid diet (to make his old playing weight for his part in the movie, Pride of the Yankees} has pared some of the paunch the Babe had acquired since 1935 in easy living...