Word: rigidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suddenly appears in Mr. Bolitho's new book that King Edward "was harassed, unreasonable and vain," whereas in Leisure of last spring he was remarkable for "the gentleness of his judgments" and "his standards were as rigid as those of his father" although Biographer Bolitho of course knew then about Mrs. Simpson...
FORTUNE concludes: 1) that the errors of pilots could be corrected by inaugurating more rigid training in instrument flying; 2) that the Department of Commerce should immediately double its radio beacon ranges and Weather Bureau stations; 3) that the Government should simplify flying regulations; 4) that the operators should speedily develop an infallible blind landing system...
...Freshman marks, the Curve has long served as the God which all Yardling markers must reverence. Although the high calibre of Government One bluebooks now soars above the scientifically established limits, section men are warned not to violate the Gospel according to Lowell. But changing conditions must make too rigid adherence to a static standard as futile as Darius whipping the turbulent waters of the Hellespoint...
...Easterners was the winner of one of the two highest prizes in the show-the $700 Altman Prize for a figure painting by an American-born citizen, which went to Charles Stafford Duncan for Girl in Black, a study of a sombre, thin-faced young woman with a curiously rigid left hand, seated on a sofa...
...price of aluminum in the Soviet Union?" smiled Mr. Davies. This led, as any question about price always does in Russia, to dispute over the illusive "real value" of the ruble. Since it has never been quoted freely on international exchange or been permitted to move without rigid State restriction across the Soviet frontier, there is no standard for comparing Soviet costs in monetary units with U. S. costs unless the frankly artificial ruble-dollar rate in Moscow be accepted. Last week the disputants never got around to working out the price of Soviet aluminum in dollars & cents, but whatever...