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Word: conform (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London last year, Saarinen (whose most recent projects have been General Motors' $68 million Technical Center in Detroit and M.I.T.'s tricornered Kresge Auditorium and cylindrical chapel-TIME, Dec. 5) decided to scale his building to the proportions of the square's older Georgian buildings, conform to surrounding heights and match cornice lines to nearby buildings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Home in Eisenhowerplatz | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

...Eisenhower and other members of my family, at the beginning, have said: "This is your decision. We will conform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: If the People Choose | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

Most Harvard students think of an M.I.T. undergraduate as one of two extremes--a laboratory slave or the immature perpetrator of some highly publicized pranks. Although the two conceptions seem mutually exclusive, Tech men in surprising numbers manage to conform to both...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Tech Student Can Pull Pranks Or Study Hard With Equanimity | 3/2/1956 | See Source »

Tough Effort. There is no corporal punishment at the centers. Failure to conform to the schedule or to meet inspection standards is punished by assignment to extra work details or remission of a rare privilege, e.g., leisure time on Sunday evenings. For serious offenses, e.g., attempted escape, boys are put in solitary-confinement rooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Shock Treatment | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

Hanson urged all departments to "make clear how much we differ form the CEEB book" and also to conform to these standards whenever possible. He cautioned, however, "not to compromise our standards when we think we are right...

Author: By John G. Wofford, | Title: Hanson States Need for Uniformity In College Exemption Requirements | 12/8/1955 | See Source »

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