Word: rigidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intimidation of a thousand freshmen--in the position Copey carved out for himself over a long span of years, is some thing which should give the present administration pause. Men such as Charles Townsend Copeland, Bliss Perry and LeBaron Russell Briggs cannot be selected on any single standard. No rigid standard could be devised to comprehend such outstanding individuals. Copey embodies, as do few other men, all the intangible qualities which go to make up the great teacher...
...mile trip from Yokohama to Tokyo a Japanese soldier stood beside the railway track every 60 feet, rigid at attention as the young man who was once plain Mr. Henry Pu Yi passed. In Tokyo all rail traffic in & out of Tokyo station was stopped for two hours; the entire railway station district was cleared. And Japan's Son-of-Heaven himself went down to greet the onetime occupant of China's Dragon Throne. Correspondents, kept back with the Tokyo populace to a distance of one block on either side of the imperial route, spitefully cabled that they...
Like Sohn's in principle, Davis' wings resembled a moth's rather than a bat's. Fastened to his hips by hinges, they were rigid, oval-shaped, flat, with small ailerons at the tips controlled by handgrips. No webbing was sewn between Davis' legs. Instead he had them bound together, with a small moth-like tail-wing fastened to each ankle. In compliance with Federal regulations, he wore two parachutes-one for emergency in case the other failed to open...
...past 27 years the Flexner type of serum has been standard treatment for cerebro-spinal meningitis. The doctor sticks a hollow needle into the patient's rigid spine. Out squirts a quantity of the germ-laden cerebro-spinal fluid, which has been imprisoned under pressure. When the squirt slows down the doctor injects the serum...
...never seen after 1904. Cause: demand for caged birds. Great auks have been extinct since 1844 (TIME, Nov. 26). Last week specimens of all these unfortunates were included in an exhibition of extinct birds by Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, coupled with a warning that, without rigid safeguards, three more North American birds are threatened with imminent annihilation: the trumpeter swan, the whooping crane, the ivory-billed woodpecker...