Word: rigidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Does he use measurements to paint by? "Oh, no. I use this eye mostly [pointing to his left one] and I hold my head in one spot, like a camera, instead of ducking it around. That may sound a bit rigid, but I think craftsmanship should be uppermost. You build the picture up, very faithfully. The less art you try to put into it the better...
Such were the beginnings of the University of Wisconsin, 100 years ago. Last week Wisconsin's Historian Merle Curti concluded that today's students would have found little, to their liking "in the plain living, the simple amusements, the rigid and rigorous disciplines" that their school started with. But many a 19th Century student remembered his campus days as the time of his life. Naturalist John Muir, leaving Madison in 1863, had paused on a high hill to look back "with streaming eyes" at the Wisconsin campus "where I had spent so many hungry and happy and hopeful...
Cambridge police began an all-out drive yesterday to force College students to find a legal place to park their cars or else to leave them home after Christmas vacation, as rigid enforcement of parking ordinances was ordered at Central sq. headquarters...
...mirror is 24 inches thick at the edge, and looks absolutely rigid. But, judged by the delicate standards of astronomy, it is almost as flexible as cellophane, changing its shape appreciably (in millionths of an inch) with each new position as the telescope swings with the stars. In cells on the under side of the mirror (see cut) are 36 complicated mechanisms, each with 1,100 parts, designed to control this out-of-focus warping by varying pressure...
...regulations, drawn up Saturday in New York by the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Council, are designed to tighten up already rigid national rulings on amateurism, scholastic standing, years of participation, and non-collegiate competition during and outside of college terms...