Word: rigor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...About a year and a half ago, Gene Krupa's band made a record called "I Know That You Know" (Brunswick). It was the first record they made, and as a matter of fact, was their first band effort. This record was not only stiff, it suffered from rigor mortis, and here's why: everybody in the band, particularly drummerman Krupa, was playing ahead of the beat. As you play the notes of a melody, it sets up a four-four tempo. Krupa was depending on the ear of the listener, used to hearing four-four tempos from marches...
...choir. Each year between 200 and 300 of St. Olaf's 1,000-odd muscular youths and placid maidens try out. The few who are picked have something to write home about. St. Olaf's choristers are held to their musical tasks with religious rigor. To be dropped from the choir is the greatest disgrace than can befall a St. Olaf student...
...Canadian Medical Association Journal cites the case of a young lineman who was shocked by 26,000 volts, received immediate treatment by trained fellow-workmen, and after eight hours of unconsciousness began to breathe normally. "The only really safe plan," said the Journal, "is to continue efforts until rigor mortis...
...prove the existence of ESP, it would be necessary to exclude with scientific rigor the possibility of other reasons for the results. Rhine's opponents do not feel that he has excluded possible collusion, sensory cues or clerical mistakes in tabulation. It has been shown that under certain lighting conditions the ESP symbols show through the backs of the cards, and in 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...
...Pickwick's most painful encounters with the rigor of British Justice was located by Charles Dickens at the Ipswich Assizes, but last week it was seen in Ipswich how considerate Justice and the police could be of a wife in search of her second divorce...