Word: rigidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stirring moment for many an old German Army officer comes on January 27, when, standing at rigid attention, he drinks a birthday toast to his old Warlord and ex-Kaiser. Last week Adolf Hitler brushed this sentimentality aside, forbade his officers to toast the old Kaiser, 80 this week, ordered them to leave all restaurants and other public places where such gestures were made. Gracious exception was made for officers who belong to the Hohenzollern family. They may drink to the health of their abdicated kinsman at Doom...
...reportedly "requested" Argentina not to use British sterling to balance her obligations to the U. S., and Argentina is anxious to keep the economic patronage of a nation which buys the largest share of her chief products, grains and meat. Three months ago Argentina went further, set up a rigid exchange control plan...
Concretely, the election changed the farm picture only for flue-cured tobacco.* By voting No, tobaccomen rejected Secretary Wallace's offer to fix a rigid quota for each seller, levy a penalty of one half the market price for excess sales. By voting No, they also ruled out loans on whatever portion of their 1939 crop they may keep off the market. Unaffected by the Election was the "voluntary" half of the farm program-acreage restriction which growers of all three crops make in return for soil conservation payments and other cash benefits...
...opinion," he told a Senate committee last April, "that the large rigid airship can serve very effectively. . . . Further blue-print and theoretical studies are useless unless we build and experiment-learn by trial and error, as has every other...
...from the color elements in them. His compositions are sometimes epigrams in paint: a lighthouse stout and stark on a green hill crest with telephone poles slanting one way on one side, the other way on the other, as if in a tug of war that keeps the lighthouse rigid...