Word: rigors
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...lose sight of breadth or method--we hoped, rather, that in the pursuit the student would discover breadth and method..." (p. 39) The report continually emphasizes the value of close association with an academic specialist as a means of learning at first-hand "the nature of scholarly inquiry: its rigor, its integrity, and its rewards...
...Range in a flight computed to be 991 miles long.* Jubilant Air Force officers pronounced the test "a success." But at the Pentagon, Skybolt's critics dourly contended that the missile was 100 miles off target, said the test would not save Skybolt. Declared one: "It was just rigor mortis setting...
...Arteries. Even before the boy, already under anesthesia, was hustled to the operating theater, his arm was put in a tub of chipped ice. The doctors dared lose no time in this effort to cut down the tissues' need for oxygen and thus delay the onset of rigor mortis in the muscles. Ev Knowles's shoulder joint was intact. The break in the humerus (the only bone in the upper arm) was between two and three inches below the joint. Says M.G.H. Spokesman Dr. Robert Shaw: "It was as though the arm had been laid...
Whenever Mlle. Boulanger speaks, speaks about music; whenever she speaks about music, she speaks of discipline, rigor, conscientiousness. "There is no substitute for discipline in music," she says to students. "You must go back to the basic concept of discipline in this art, and the more engrossed you become in the history of music and strict academic form, the more free you will be as you compose later on." Again, she says: "With young composers detail is infinitely important and few pay enough attention to it." Her main concern in teaching is "to develop the conscience of a musician, which...
...parked car, and her boy friend is properly distraught. He first tells of his eternal devotion to her corpse. She answers from Above that he must concentrate on her soul because the dead body is sure to lose its appeal. Not quite convinced, the boy soon gets the "Rigor Mortis Blues." Finally, he appeals to God to let him join the girl in heaven. God, always receptive to realiable pleas from teenagers, nods...