Word: according
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adult, and that the grownup tries to stifle this natural virtue in order to conform to social conventions. As a poet, too, Mr. Mearns believes that the child has possibilities which if encouraged would produce far greater poetry than that which he is made to write in order to accord with the traditional in literature...
...stifles rather than develops, and that in conforming to conventions much that is fine is lost; but silly as conventions often are, they usually express some natural law necessary to the maintenance of a complicated society. It is an understanding of these laws and the ability to work in accord with them that must govern true greatness. For certainly a man who preserves or returns to the simplicity of childhood, in spite of a worldly knowledge is greater than the child who knows nothing of the ways of the world...
...rare pleasure for the writer to find himself in accord with a CRIMSON editorial. But the careful comment in this morning's CRIMSON deals so well with an unpleasant subject that any further comment must be in the nature of compliment and complement...
Since the Hoover cannonade, epochal changes have come upon Peru. In the purses of her citizens are no more libras (Peruvian "pounds") but shiny new soles (Peruvian "suns"*). For the first time in two generations Peru is on friendly terms with Chile, due to the Tacna-Arica accord (TIME, May 27, 1929) negotiated under President Hoover by the late U.S. Ambassador Alexander Pollock Moore whom President Coolidge sent to Peru...
...spends more to maintain a pleasure resort than he is willing to accord 100 destitute families...