Word: conformal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Calories and Figures. Most healthy adults keep the same weight year after year, whether they live on salads or steak and apple pie. The body adjusts its processes automatically to conform to the amount of food taken in. A heavy meal does not ordinarily lay down an extra pound or two, because a large quantity of food stimulates metabolism...
...foreign relations, establish a common currency, common citizenship, common communications in the Federal Union. All powers not specifically granted the Union would be retained by each state: the state could be socialist or capitalist, a republic like the U. S., a monarchy like Britain. But each would have to conform to a Bill of Rights, grant freedom of speech, of worship, of the press, the right to peaceful assembly...
...results of elections. The poll conducted by Defense cannot be so easily confirmed and is therefore subject to attack. Any poll which did not cover every Harvard student would be challenged by somebody. It is to be doubted that the Crimson would accept any result which did not conform to its impression of the facts. If the Crimson is sincere, if you are not opposing just for the sake of opposition, there is an easy way to find out if our poll is accurate. That is to conduct a poll of your own. We believe that such a poll would...
Unfortunately, as those who attended know, some speakers at that meeting did not conform to the standards of sanity and sincerity which Professor Morison describes and which might be expected on such an occasion...
Meanwhile Manhattanites, who were prepared to dismiss Frederick Stock's orchestra with kindly condescension, got the jolt of their symphonic season. Admitted the Post's Critic Samuel Chotzinoff: "In the balance between its choirs the Chicagoans conform to the best standards set by the country's major orchestras." Crowed Critic Thomson: "Mr. Stock won his audience ... as he has won audiences for 35 years, by playing them music very beautifully, not by wowing them." At last week's end, the traveling Philharmonikers were still on the road. But back in Manhattan worried directors were sadly pondering...