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...problem that affects us very vitally because we know that when dollars are cheapened commodity prices rise, but wages stand still. Until [the Government] can assure Labor that we will get more of these cheap dollars for the day's work we perform, so that it will conform to the increase of commodity prices, it is my judgment that Labor will stand unflinchingly against Inflation...
...freshman who enters college with a view to a future medical career comes with many preconceived notions as to the arrangement and selection of his courses; these ideas, while they may be slightly warped, conform in general to what is popularly accepted, even among doctors and professors. These ideas will in all probability be confirmed by the Freshman's advisor, and later by his tutor: he will proceed with the usual round of laboratories and embalmed Batrachians; he will concentrate in a science, most often Bio-chemistry, and he will become a doctor at long lost. A certain minority...
...cheers greeted Major Cyril F. Entwistle when he shouted, "It is necessary for us and other countries to tell Japan quite clearly that she must conform to western standards of living or her goods must be prohibited from entering other countries...
...tongue, wrangling with churchmen and standpatters, touching off a conflagration of protest. One of Judge Lindsey's pet anathemas has been what he calls "bootleg divorce," i. e. divorce by amicable agreement but fixed up to look as though one party had been wronged by the other, to conform to the law. He violently wants to change that...
...Senator James Couzens, the only Republican the President could get to serve. To silence its sideline coaching, the President still hoped to send Congress home before the W. E. C. opens June 12. But he had not yet submitted legislation empowering him to juggle tariff rates to conform with any bargains struck at London...