Word: rigorousity
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In Tokyo, 29-year-old Genzo Kuriyama, ex-paratrooper, faced bankruptcy last month. He jumped 82 feet down a bathhouse chimney. Police reported that soft soot at the chimney's base and "past rigorous training as a paratrooper" prevented completion of his mission.
Along with the tuition increase, the Business School is instituting a rigorous program to reduce expenses. Efforts are also being made to raise an additional $5,000,000 endowment. There are no University funds available to supplement the Business School endowment income.
The Senate was mostly preoccupied with getting out a labor bill. The Republican majority finally reached an agreement on a bill which contained no ban on industry-wide bargaining and was much less rigorous than the one approved by the House.
In London, Herbert Morrison wore his red tie, and lady Laborites turned up at the House of Commons in their nattiest scarlet dresses. The News Chronicle's Columnist Ian Mackay was in a reminiscent mood. "May Day," he wrote of his youth, "to my eager young mind, was the...
Apparently, said one correspondent, the Russians' first experience with large-scale, uncensored coverage of Russia by the Allied press "affected the Government hierarchy just about as pleasurably as a swift kick in the groin. "And though the people who irritated them most have departed, I'm sure they...