Word: conformal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this pattern conform the CCC, the NYA resident centers, the Quaker Summer Camps, Work Camps for America, and sundry other similar experiments. It is in the type of enrollees that the principal difference occurs. The government organizations consist almost exclusively of young people who would otherwise be entirely on the rocks; the private camps have sought to promote "trans-class associations," through which college youth and working-class youth can come to know each other and to have a more real friendship, a deeper awareness of mutual needs and interests. The private camps, too, have tended to be more democratically...
...Akron lawyer he refused to try to keep-up-with-the-Joneses. As counsel and then president of Commonwealth & Southern Corp. he refused to conform to the established slick norm of utilitycoons. He carried that spirit into his battle with the Government over TVA; his old talent for trouble sought out what he considered the biggest enemy of his business...
...usual, assured anxious Christians that no "Japanifying" of Christianity was intended. But Tokyo's July spy sensation, when seven Japanese Salvation Army chiefs were among those arrested, gave the Government an excuse to change its mind, declare that Christian activities, like every other phase of Japanese life, "must conform to the new national structure" in order to contribute to Japan's "cooperative Asia." Shrine v. Cross. No U. S. churchman objects to the principle that Japanese converts should control Japanese Christianity...
...Purge. First victim of the new nation alist purge in Japan last week was the Salvation Army. After dismissing its for eign officers, cutting off relations with British headquarters and abolishing all military titles, the Army changed its name to the "Salvation Body" so that it might "henceforth conform to genuine Japanese principles." Still hanging in the balance is the fate of other foreign missions in Japan (biggest are Catholic, Presbyterian, Episcopal, Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran, Congrega-tionalist), with some 700 U. S. missiona ries. But Japanese Protestants met twice last week to organize the Genuine Japan Christian Church, favored...
...this optimistic ointment there was one fly, a major index which refused to conform: the figures for bank debits (checks drawn on deposit accounts). In 140 centres outside New York, these debits declined 14.3% during the last three weeks in July, a far more than seasonal recession. Such a drop in checks drawn must mean that fewer (or smaller) business transactions are being completed, that sales of goods and services have fallen off or that payment for them has been postponed...