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Finally there is a boardlike rigidity to his entire body that renders him immobile.

From Time Magazine Archive

He thanked heaven for that as he tore away a boardlike piece of apparatus and jammed it over the leak in the jar.

From Astounding Stories, February, 1931 by Bates, Harry