Word: rigidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...means the cancellation of certain nonessential work which has been provided within the University. There will be some who are now working for the University who will find themselves without jobs, and will not receive other positions around Harvard. For those students, the adjustment to outside employers, a more rigid schedule, and the exacting work in competition with professionals will be difficult. But loans and scholarships have been increased, the number of student waiters has been tripled, and the application for a number of the $500 governmental loans should help to alleviate the cut in NYA allocations. There is ample...
Only a few days before the Army's Lieut. General John Lesesne DeWitt, Chief of the Western Defense Command, had conferred at Sitka with the Navy's Commander A. J. Isbell-and the photograph, suddenly appearing out of the Navy's rigid Alaskan censorship, had been the only clue to an Alaskan action...
...Middle East, ships to capture Madagascar, ships to take huge convoys to India, ships to transport supplies to Russia, ships to save an army from Dunkirk, ships to keep this nation the best fed in Europe. Ships do not lie idle. They must be employed according to a rigid rule of priority. Suppose the Second Front became Number 1 priority. Perhaps then the greatest seafaring nation the world has ever seen would be unable to find the ships...
...architect, 68-year-old Saarinen believes the building of towns is an architect's job. Because he is an artist rather than a theoretician, his town planning has. followed no rigid formula. Aside from his own students, who were able to watch his deft civic surgery at first hand, few contemporaries have fully understood his method of work. To explain that method, Planner Saarinen has been writing a monumental treatise called The City. Last week the manuscript of The City was completed...
Under Canada's rigid wartime price-and-wage fixing, Vancouver was the first city to convict a restaurateur who upped prices and a landlord who jacked apartment rents. Last week Vancouver became the first city to fine a company for raising wages...