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Word: rigor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House of Representatives does not operate with the rigor of a court of law, and neither the decision to investigate Powell's eligibility nor the resolution that excluded him specified any reason why he might not be qualified. Basically, however, members cited Powell's misuse of Congressional funds and privileges, and the contempt charges arising from a libel suit against him in New York...

Author: By Marvin E. Milbauer, | Title: Powell and the Law | 6/12/1967 | See Source »

...want the requirement to provide students with a firm confrontation with a language, but not a destructive one," Monro explained. He said there "has been quite a switch in attitudes in the College" about the rigor with which the requirement should be observed...

Author: By W. BRUCE Springer, | Title: Tests Office to Study Language Provisions | 5/29/1967 | See Source »

...intellectual rigor and impatience with time wasters gave Luce the reputation, among those who did not know him, of having no sense of humor and ice water in his veins. But neither was the case. Witness the day that he was sitting in the office of a bureau chief when the door burst open and a member of the staff came whooping in, bottle in hand, tripped on the sill and fell full-length in front of the Editor in Chief. The bureau chief explained to his startled boss that the young man was celebrating the birth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Staff: Mar. 10, 1967 | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

...rigor and devotion of Schapiro's scholarly work display the influence of the Talmudic tradition which he inherited from his father, who taught at a Jewish seminary in Russia. Three qualities characterize Schapiro's approach to the history of art: sensitive and sympathetic seeing, detailed and accurate description, and an effort to make aesthetic intuition accessible through a philosophically rigorous theory...

Author: By Jonathan D. Fineberg, | Title: Meyer Schapiro | 2/6/1967 | See Source »

...topics of special interest to the "core" course material, these reforms are valuable. But there is a danger that special topics will replace, rather than supplement this core, and that some of the split courses will acquire a heavily pre-med or pre-bio accent and lose their rigor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Splitting Chemistry | 12/14/1966 | See Source »

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