Word: rigidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tutorial Rigid...
...Yorkshire weaver, he passed the civil service examinations at 22 and was sent as a customs official to the Orkney Islands, where a bicycle accident crippled him for life. He went into politics and became first Socialist Chancellor of the Exchequer (1924, 1929-31). His hard-headed insistence on rigid economy brought the British Government through the early part of the Depression. Philip Snowden was branded a "traitor" to the working class when he and Ramsay MacDonald coalesced with the "National" (Conservative) Government of 1931. He retired from politics next year...
...mental state that he could not make up his mind to try for the apple at all. This was as truly a nervous breakdown as any human being ever suffered, said Prof. Liddell. Achilles "would lay his snout on the cover of the box, close his eyes and stand rigid, growling for a whole hour. In those hours even placing an apple on Achilles' nose failed to make him stir or eat. We believe that this experimental neurosis is caused by the equivalent of a human conflict situation...
...nearly true that President Conant cannot meet five or more alumni without asking for gifts to his free income, whence comes assistance to rigid department budgets drowned in shifting streams of concentration. Added to his personal plea are the ceaseless, subtle machinery of the Harvard Fund, the Twenty Fifth Anniversary Gift, the departments' committees, and the groups of Overseers. With so many persons working full time and so much thought being given by high officers to this problem, the unending complaints of special blocs seem unfair...
...preserve the balance of the H.A.A.'s budget, the University has supplied some six thousand dollars to meet the expenses of the new program of rigid organization for intra-mural inter-house athletics. Since the University already supplies about twenty-five thousand dollars annually to the support of the Freshman compulsory exercises, it is now inaugurating nothing new, but merely extending its policy of paying for the beneficial gymnastics of the team athletes...