Word: conformal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...competition. . . . Price wars necessarily injure small independent marketers. . . . Therefore, I am requesting and authorizing you, as Chairman of the Marketing Committee, to designate committees for each locality when and as price wars develop, with authority to confer . . . and in a co-operative manner to stabilize the price level to conform to that normally prevailing in contiguous areas where marketing conditions are similar...
...highest British circles on the menace of an unexpected air attack, for example from the Nazis' new bombing base only 320 miles from Buckingham Palace (see map), brought orders from His Majesty's Government last week that the peacetime organization of the Royal Air Force must now "conform as closely as possible with the organization visualized for war." Effect of this is that, in case of emergency, operations will at once be directed not by civilian officials in Whitehall but by four British air marshals, charged respectively with bombers, fighters, coast-defense planes and spare or training ships...
Although there may be some justification for this inference by one unacquainted with the facts, any thorough reading of all the appraisals printed will clearly show that the writer's inference does not conform to the actual case. The "Crimson" has praised and censured alike. After eighteen conferences with men selected by their respective departments it has been our invariable experience to find students open-minded and quite willing to give frank opinions-of anyone in their fields. There is no reason to believe that men selected by their departments should be especially favorable toward their particular faculty, or that...
...lack of it. ... There is no reason why places for the consumption of liquor should not be made comfortable and decorative. . . . Pictures, as well as flowers, may brighten a corner. "Obscene' should not be an execration lightly to be hurled at a painting because it does not conform to one's own viewpoint. . . . The picture is not obscene, therefore I shall not order its removal...
...Manhattan's Woolworth Building, the Minnesota Capitol, the New York Customs House, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, the Detroit Public Library-all of them handsome, elaborate, rich in borrowed decoration. On the Supreme Court Building, Chief Justice Taft gave him three orders: "The building must conform in design with the Capitol. It should be enduring. And Mrs. Taft says it should be easy to keep clean...