Word: conformal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After seven years of bucking Hollywood, intense, sensitive, beautiful Cinemactress Frances Farmer, who had never troubled to conform, was in a Los Angeles hospital last week. Given a six months suspended sentence for drunken driving last October, she was hailed to court again last week for getting into a drunken fracas, fought and kicked in the courtroom, was sent away for mental observation...
...rise in protest against your description of the Gertrude L. Thebaut as a "full-rigged schooner" [TIME, Dec. 14]. Webster defines full-rigged as "having three or more masts, each with its full complement of square sails." As a schooner is fore-and-aft-rigged it could not conform to the requirements of this definition. A full-rigged schooner would be as anomalous as a two-legged centipede...
...theory, the U.S. has always accepted these principles, which are basic to a strategy of full offense. In practice, in a year marked by Pearl Harbor, the siege of Stalingrad and the British defeat in Africa in June, the Army & Navy had never dared conform. They tried to build every kind of materiel, expanded as fast as they could outfit the men, often hoarded equipment. If the agreement that Oliver Lyttelton got is really a matter of practice this time, Pearl Harbor is indeed a long way behind...
...Union's actual proposal has gone unnecessarily far in advocating that all liberal arts courses be thus merged. University Hall's concentration on molding Harvard's liberal curriculum to conform to the needs of war has left no place for the rumored coeducation. The main purpose of Harvard now is to train men for war. The vast majority of its students in the future will be scientific concentrators, one-year men, or students actually in the Armed Services. Any courses designed to give these men the flavor of a liberal education cannot at the same time conform to Radcliffe...
...Treasury last week announced that in December it is going to have to borrow $9 billions-largest financing in history. At the same time it became clear that Henry Morgenthau Jr. is at long last changing the Treasury's methods of bond distribution to conform to methods used in the Liberty Loan drives of World War I and successfully practised by Canada in this...