Word: rigorousness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...approaching sleeping homeless people burrowed in blankets. But he called at 3 p.m. on his cell phone, and the University police came. Donning gloves, they shook the homeless man, paused a moment and rolled him over. As his body turned, his arms remained locked above his head in rigor mortis. My roommates and I winced. Within minutes a chorus of sirens and flashing lights arrived, and an EMT checked for a pulse. The body was covered in a white sheet before the ambulance pulled away, the area was roped off, and an officer began inspecting the man?...
Allison J. Porter ’02, an astronomy and astrophysics concentrator living in Quincy House, had Kirshner as an advisor for her junior paper. Porter raved about Kirshner’s ability to mix fun with academic rigor...
...think it's much more intensive," said Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D'Alessandro. "There's going to be rigor in terms of helping students who did not do well on the MCAS...
...biggest admissions test, the ACT, had 1.8 million takers last year. Published by an Iowa testing company, the ACT started in 1959 as a rival to the SAT and focuses more on subject matter than general reasoning. But the ACT never developed the SAT's aura of quality and rigor. Whenever a college suggests dropping its SAT requirement, traditionalists on campus inevitably say doing so would lower standards...
...second-biggest admissions test, the act, had 1.8 million takers last year. Published by an Iowa testing company, the act started as a rival to the SAT and focuses more on subject matter than general reasoning. But the act never developed the sat's aura of quality and rigor. Whenever a college suggests dropping its SAT requirement, traditionalists on campus inevitably say doing so would lower standards...