Word: rigidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government service, has lately emerged as a household word, Director John Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. With an appropriation of $50,000 and an enthusiastic waiting list. Director Hoover decided: "First we'll crawl. Maybe after that we'll walk, maybe run, maybe fly." By rigid adherence to this careful program of crawling, walking, running and flying Director Hoover has built in the past decade one of the finest, most efficient law enforcement agencies the world has ever known...
...reveals a trained lecturer's wit, and frequent sardonic asides suggest the old professor addressing students who have not won his respect. No democrat, Pareto would not simplify his thought for the masses, felt that the secrets of history were harmful to most. In his will were rigid provisions that no popular exposition of his ideas should preface his books: "My sole interest is the quest for social uniformities, social laws. I am here reporting on the results of my quest, since I hold that . . . such a report can do no harm. I should refrain from doing...
...adding to the Arms appropriate legends like Harvard University, Harvard College, Harvard Medical School, or the name of a Harvard club, to indicate such special associations. From the artistic point of view, freedom of decorative treatment in combination with the Arms is very much to be preferred to the rigid limitations of the circular Seal...
...which arouses and holds his interest. The plan is a happy compromise between Charles William Eliot's long discarded policy of giving the student complete freedom in the choice of all his courses and the system of concentration and distribution fathered by Mr. Lowell, which time has proved too rigid. With the field of concentration left by the new ruling in the hands of the various departments, as before, there will be less excuse for misfits, and consequently a natural rise in the level of scholarship...
Subjecting "The Liberal Tradition--A Free People and a Free Economy" to a rigid examination, Lewis W. Douglas, former director of the Budget, will deliver his first Godkin Lecture at 4.30 o'clock, this afternoon in the New Lecture Hall...