Word: rigidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Studios abandoned outdoor night shots, went on a rigid 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. shooting schedule to get people home before blackout time...
...blacked-out London the pinch of milkless, eggless, fruitless days began to twist morals out of shape. While public morale rode high, by last week many a Londoner had relaxed his usually rigid code of personal honor sufficiently to treat Government war restrictions in much the same way that the mass of U.S. citizens treated Prohibition. It looked as though game-loving Britons were inclined to think that outwitting the Government was a sporting proposition...
...This explains why the old plan in rigid tests in all subjects over two or three years has sunk to 8% of the accepted students of the Class of 1945, and why modifications have taken place in the other methods of admission...
Luck was needed, for the soap opera is a rigid medium, a hard game to buck. Scripter Michael was lucky in her husband, a radio producer who could keep casting and direction in the family, and lucky in the fact that P. & G., with more than a dozen other soap operas running, could afford to experiment with one. She had acquired deftness with dialogue and sound in five years' radio apprenticeship. But the best thing she had was a determination to create living and thoughtful people...
...congratulated on meeting the high rigid requirements necessary for your biography to be listed in the 1941-42 WHO'S WHO AMONG STUDENTS IN AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES which will appear in February. You have been selected as one of a limited number of outstanding leaders on your campus to represent Harvard...