Word: conformal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resplendent garb and martial array, and the rival Harvard band will likewise march and will likewise suffer from the comparison, especially from the aspect of precision and novelty of performance. Admitting that the U. S. Military Academy would be a rather lofty standard to which the Harvard band should conform, still the performances of last week and the week before have only clinched the impression that an evolution is in order. Regardless of musical excellence, gold braid and epaulets with really snappy formations create an atmosphere that the sailor cap, sweater, and black tie somehow fail to achieve...
...policy, there will be criticism of what he refers to as a managed currency and issue will be taken with him as to whether it is sound ever to try to fix the value of the dollar by changing its gold content every now and then to conform to price changes. This theory, which is sponsored by Professor Irving Fisher of Yale, is not new and has had the penetrating criticism of economists and gold experts for a decade...
...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...