Word: rigidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moscow-Leningrad run, crack line of the entire Soviet Union. To clear the wreckage last year took 13 hours. Few details passed the censor, except that the wreck was a rear-end collision, the dead, 23. With the thermometer at -25°, corpses hacked out of the wreckage were rigid icicles...
...statesmen of the Old South probably realized more clearly than their victorious Northern opponents that when two races live together in constant contact one must inevitably rule over the other. The American Indians and the natives of Malaysia are but two examples. Intermarriage is the only escape from this rigid necessity. This solution is obviously impossible in the South...
There can be no dispute about the ineffectual training with which the average freshman enters college. "Adequate preparation," is indeed vitally necessary. The very existence of rigid examinations, however, makes this preparation more difficult by emphasizing the value of a passing grade rather than of genuine education. Since this is true, some substitute for the present system must be evolved...
Living for twenty-day periods on a rigid diet of canned food and corn sugar (dextrose), Dr. Talbott will make a study of the mineral balance of the body at various high attitudes. During these twenty-day periods, Dr. Talbott's menu will be exactly the same every day and the quantity will remain the same every day. If he gets hungry after eating the allotted canned gods he will eat more dextrose. The canned foods will include a wide assortment of meats, fruits, vegetables, cereals, and soups, as well as sea biscuits, powered milk, coffee, tea, sugar and chocolate...
...certain point, Author Cozzens unfalteringly directs a tale that might turn comic if he did not keep it rigid with suspense. What that point is the heavily-breathing reader will find out for himself...