Word: rigor
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...retail prices, except in specific cases by assent of the State. Italian farm prices have thus far been supported by import quota restrictions. Tuberculin tests are invoked to exclude much foreign cattle. The Fascist Press ceaselessly thunders, "Buy Italian!" Speculation on Italian stock exchanges is now checked with such rigor that prices and trading have long been stagnant...
...pretty sight are those dying or dead from cholera. The disease, like typhoid, attacks the bowels, causes stupendous loss of body fluids. The whole body becomes covered with dank moisture. Cheeks become hollow, noses pinched, eyes sunk, voices husky. Death's rigor sets in quickly. Muscles become literally hard as wood. Sometimes a stiffening corpse jerks about, may kick out a foot, wave an arm. flap its jaws, roll its eyes...
...less recherche but more vigorous and personal contact. With the undergraduate, course requirements, and examinations have formed the frame-work of the curriculum. The tutorial system, the loosening of examination requirements, course reduction for honors men, and increasing emphasis on the thesis, however, have modified the academic rigor. The importance of the actual amassing of knowledge has some times not been recognized by modern educators, but they were right in revolting from the old school of learning for its own sake...
German newspapers are reluctant to bless the "violation of constitutional rights," but in general approve the measure as expedient. As a matter of fact, the Metternich spirit lacks its old rigor and the "curtailment of civil liberty" probably will impose little restraint in practice. The official Prussian press has been careful to explain that there would be no interference with orderly meetings and that the decree is directed only against abuses...
Events are born as journalism, die as history. Journalist Mark Sullivan's Our Times is an attempt to delay the process, or at least to arrange the corpse's limbs decently before rigor mortis sets in. Journalist Sullivan knew the dear departed well, arranges the lights and shadows with a friendly and discriminating hand. This third volume of his big work (there will be two more) covers the years...