Word: rigidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Applicants are often judged on personality, leadership, or emotional stability," Bender said. "There is no rigid standard for measuring these things, and admission policy is often vague. How then can you tell whether a student has been turned down because of discrimination...
...stooped old lady, who in her daytime tweeds and cotton stockings looks like a tired, worn housewife, Mrs. Truxtun Beale entertains with rigid selectivity at Decatur House, the only house in Washington still lighted by gas and candlelight. Said a society writer: "If you go to Beale's you're made. She has no ax to grind, nothing to sell. She's just so secure...
Replied Bill Green: "All right, Senator. We know when a measure strikes at our heart and when it does not." Labor's opposition to Taft-Hartley, said Green, was "as uncompromising and rigid as was the opposition of our forefathers, the colonists, to Great Britain when it imposed upon them government without representation...
...year-round proposition at Kentucky), as many as some 200 eager candidates dribble in to work out with the varsity. Rupp selects about a dozen who fit his requirements as the "cool pro type." They get board, room, tuition, dry cleaning, laundry, books; $10-a-month spending money and rigid Rupp discipline. Boss Rupp, who wears brown suits because he thinks they bring good luck, is even fussy about his players having dates...
...Protestant and Catholic churches were called on for help. Both faiths agreed to make Adelheide over into a kind of coeducational Boys Town* and run it jointly. Today it houses 796 children-590 Catholic and 206 Protestant. On the Catholic side (a 22-year-old German law enforces rigid segregation in all joint Protestant-Catholic welfare enterprises) there are 272 girls. Else and Irma are the village's first Protestant girls...