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...result, the practice was banned at one tune or another in almost all the colonies. The New York law of 1747, for example, "strictly prohibits and forbids all [doctors] to inoculate for the small pox any person or persons ... on pain of being prosecuted to the utmost rigour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rx for the Small Pox? | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

faintings black, rigour, chilling, brown...

Author: By Stuart A. Davis, | Title: John Berryman-II | 4/13/1966 | See Source »

Guaranteed to ease the wandering student gently back into the rigour of academic life after the Thanksgiving respite, the current double bill at the University featuring "Swing Time" with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and "Wives Never Know" starring Charley Ruggles and Mary Boland, is one of the most entertaining, and colorful of the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: * The Moviegoer * | 11/27/1936 | See Source »

...Court of King's Conscience dating from the early eighteenth century. Chancery had jurisdiction when there were no forms of action by which relief could be obtained at law, in respect of rights which ought to be enforced. Said King James, speaking in the Star Chamber: "Where the rigour of the law in many cases will undo a subject, then the chancery tempers the law with equity, and so mixes mercy with justice, as it preserves a man from destruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Poison Paintbrush | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...operation of the mind Valery has examined in a way to which could be applied the motto of Leonardo, which he admires so much, "obstinate rigour." And with remarkable keenness he has applied what he has found to philosophical problems, to religious revelations, to the theory of poetry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARIETY. By Paul Valery. Translated from the French by T. Malcolm Crosby. Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York, 1927. $3.00. | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

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