Word: conformal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will appear the night of the Freshman Jubilee, announced before vacation for May 23. With the proceeds of the publication, which is now on sale at $5 per copy, a large part of the Jubilee expenses will be met. Twenty-first in the series of Red Books it will conform in general to the conventional style...
...Flag-staff has been seeking it in the sky. Seven weeks ago a small object was observed, but it was not until yesterday, after seven weeks of constant observation, that the rate and the direction of the motion of this object showed that it could be certified to conform exactly to the orbit of the planet calculated by Lowell. Its position on March 12 agreed perfectly with the longitude which he had predicted...
...news columns of this morning's CRIMSON contain the announcement of a widespread movement by leading educators to modernize religious teachings to conform to present-day science by adding to the Bible the humanistic utterances of such men as Lincoln and Carlyle and such documents as the Declaration of Independence. Quite a different point of view is shown in the statement reprinted elsewhere on this page reporting the progress of the Bryan Memorial University, a college in which every member of the faculty must swear to an implicit belief in the divine authorship of the Scriptures...
...here was a brusque note from President Lowell announcing that Harvard University would not raise the wages of the cleaning women, from thirty-five cents an hour (which Mr. Duvall knew Mrs. Trafton was receiving at the time of her sudden discharge) to thirty-seven cents to conform to the findings of a State board. Mr. Duvall, when he showed me the letter, asked if I did not agree that the circumstances warranted making it public. Fully appreciative of the ethical problem involved in disclosing a private letter, he did not finally decide to do so without serious thought...