Word: rigidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rigid economy is so necessary, it seems that a less vital organ of the University might have been curtailed: the appropriations perhaps, for those less essential appendages, the military and naval science departments. The present status of the University treasury does not seem to demand the saving of a few thousand dollars for the hampering of the primary educational tool at any time and least of all during the reading period...
...Peek said nothing. An oldtime Equalization Fee advocate, he had persistently argued that the solution of the farm problem lay not in a vicious thwarting of Nature but in increasing markets, in plugging world markets. He had opposed unduly rigid restrictions on packers and their profits. He had put through the "unsatisfactory" milk marketing agreements. To Mr. Peek the Secretary's remarks were a slap in the face, and though Mr. Wallace delivered the slap, the author of the slap was Braintruster Rexford G. Tugwell...
...appreciate the seriousness of this issue it will be necessary to examine the peculiar background of the tutorial system in Harvard College. That Harvard began as a school for ministers is a fact which has larger implications than is commonly recognized. It meant that Harvard should follow the rigid course curriculum of the scholastic colleges of Europe, a curriculum which is admirably adapted to an educational process of a very special kind. That process is based on the assumption that there is one truth, moulding and informing all studies, and that it can be taught as a unified whole through...
...Committee. Aware that the debts of corporations to the extent of $1,500,000,000 must be refinanced within the next 18 months, and also aware that in the past six months Capital has virtually been on strike, the President wanted the situation eased by having Congress liberalize the rigid Securities...
...Brain Trust idea of forming a government corporation to handle the entire wholesale liquor business. When the distillers submitted a code of fair competition, they saw it thrown in the wastebasket. Last week they were asked to accept a code, drawn by a special Roosevelt committee, which imposed rigid Federal control on the whole liquor business until Congress could tackle the subject. Provisions...