Word: conformal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President was ready for this: almost everybody in the room had had a hand in it, he said. Asked for specific instances, he said there were flocks of them. Read any columnist, he suggested. He went on: unfortunately, some reporters are forced to write stuff to conform with their publisher's line...
...behavior is influenced by education. We have to ask ourselves how Germans became Nazis in the first place. The millions of youth who pushed Hitler to power were not taught Hitlerism in their schools and universities. . . . The fact is that what students were taught in their schools did not conform to the reality which they saw in life. . . . Democracy failed to provide . . . a satisfactory social and economic existence. . . . Hitler merely canalized the almost universal discontent . . . It makes little difference what people learn in their schoolbooks . . . if their social and political life is depressed and insecure...
Assuming command of the Army Training Schools, Colonel Wood stated in his Order that "it is mandatory that the training program at this station be conducted with the utmost smoothness and efficiency." To that end all men attached to the station "will promptly familiarize themselves with and conform to" customs and procedures of instruction, civilian administration, and social forms "to such a degree as to harmonize with and conform to the general environment and atmosphere within and about Harvard University...
...owners spend $17.20 per capita a year, reap the profit of their investment in better work by men & women in the fields and mills. Cooperation of the workers is close to perfect. Working for the backers of the medical system they can be told what to do. They conform. There is no slackness...
Replying to a letter from Ralph Bartn Perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy and chairman of the American Defense Harvard Group, Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles wrote that the actions taken in North African diplomatic relations conform to the desires of most of the American people, contrary to the opinion expressed in some circles...