Word: conformal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jaws, more sloping shoulders, longer and thinner necks. To the trained anthropologist the dimensions and contours of their heads and faces are sometimes suggestive of retarded development, sometimes of the retention of primitive features, and often of conservatism which may be described as evolutionary rigidity or a failure to conform to modern trends of physical change." Whether the less handsomely endowed criminal takes to anti-social behavior as a compensation for his physical shortcomings, Dr. Hooton does not venture a guess...
...request of the local police is indicative of a changed relationship between Harvard and the Cambridge municipal authorities. This conciliatory move by the University was the result of a sincere desire on the part of the Cambridge Police Department to cooperate with University Hall in assisting the students to conform...
...protested against this affair, he wrote the most impassioned letters in the book, demanding that she receive his mistress and condemning artificial moral standards: "Do you think I have been insincere in what I have written all my life? Do you think that my contempt for law, society and conformity are not genuine? Well, I can tell you I am no faker. I shall always try to appear to conform, but I shall not do so to,-well, to avoid the disapproval of others...
When it was suggested that more data could be found on his life in Who's Who in which he is listed, the poet, who doesn't conform in the slightest to the usual pictures of a poet, laughingly said, "Not only that, but I can clean skates with my teeth...
...world to which Goldberg had introduced her. An Irish boy fell in love with her, carried her off to Ireland to live with his parents until she could make up her mind to marry him. Julie loved him too, loved Ireland, tried to disinfect her speech and thoughts to conform with a pleasant, proper environment. But when the showdown came she streaked back to London to meet a chastened, honest Goldberg on his release, realized that only when she was with him was she in the thick of things...