Word: rigor
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...Massachusetts were in utmost danger. They caught fire numerous times and could not have been saved by all the help that the town could afford had it not been for the assistance of the Gentlemen of the General Court. His Excellency the Governor, who in spite of the rigor of the weather was most active in exerting himself in supplying the town engines with water which had to be fetched from a distance, the two college pumps being then rendered useless...
...same rigor was applied in scholarship and discipline. It was Mr. O's pride that Pomfret boys have more than held their own among boys from bigger schools both in studies and athletics. The most unusual mind (Schuyler B. Jackson. 1922) that Princeton has had in years was awakened at Pomfret. Yale's Mallory and Harvard's Buell were Pomfret bred footballers of recent fame. From Pomfret to Harvard went a great stroke oar, George Appleton; for Pomfret, like Kent, is one of the few rowing schools...
...beatification. The ecclesiastical tribunal which sat on his case ordered disinterment of his body. When the body was removed last week from its coffin in the crypt of Loigny Church, where it had lain since 1887, it was reported to be in a "miraculous" state of preservation?no rigor mortis, hair and skin "as natural as in life." General de Sonis Was beatified...
...theory the court guards the bankrupt's assets, with all the moral rigor of the U. S. behind it. In practice the judge appoints a supposedly disinterested and trustworthy person as receiver who does the actual work, subject only to final court review. The Federal law fixes the service charges a receiver may make upon the assets, ranging from 6% on $500 or less, down to 1% on $10,000 or more. In effect the creditors pay the receiver from funds they would otherwise get. Thus receiverships are profitable political plums whereby many a lawyer swells his income...
While cameras clicked, the onetime Crown Prince chatted amiably with reporters, who protested that they were being kept out of House Doom with such iron rigor that really it would be most difficult to write satisfactory stories. Taking the hint at once, "Wilhelm III" ran a rueful hand through his now pure white hair and promised to do what he could...