Word: rigidly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...school is proud of its athletes and of its scholastic record. Sacred studies and spelling study (until a student's spelling is letter-perfect) are required every day, and Latin is a pre scribed course. Students are carefully ushered in small classes (12 to 15) through a rigid classical curriculum. Last year 35 of the school's 231 boys averaged 90 or better in the school examinations. Episcopal High School scholars make an impressive showing at University of Vir ginia, Princeton, Harvard and Yale. Planning to go back to teach in The High School (perhaps eventually to step...
Said Dr. Dunlap: "Women . . . seem less abject in their obedience to foolish laws than are men. ... It was once against rigid convention for women to expose their legs in public...
...figure with . . . a pointed beard, inclosed in an aviator's helmet and having, beneath the chin, a sort of bib or drool cloth. The hands are upraised in the standard posture of the guest of honor at a stickup and the figure then declines, round, rigid as a concrete pipe and innocent of fold or human line, to the waist, where it disappears into a bar rel. ... I, personally, will undertake tc set to work . . . and make a better statue of St. Francis...
English snobbery made her fume, but she later decided a rigid caste system had the good result of making modest-income people immune to success stories, and hence to U. S. "bootstrap hysteria." "A good deal in England makes the blood boil," says Author Halsey, "but there is not nearly so much occasion as there is in America for blood to run cold"-meaning lynchings, gangsters, etc. As between good and bad Englishness, Author Halsey calls it about a draw. "Living in England," she concludes, "must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife. Whenever you have...
...some of the Rhine experiments the cards have not been screened from the view of the observer. Some scientists have criticized Dr. Rhine's probability mathematics; others declare that he has withheld some of his results from publication. Still others have tried to duplicate his experiments under rigid laboratory control -with unfavorable results...