Word: conformal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Says Messerschmitt: "You must conform to the needs of the times. I would rather be building planes. When the opportunity presents itself, I will...
...Leonard wrote a letter to a local newspaper criticizing the gross receipts tax and urging instead a state income tax. He spoke purely as a private citizen, but he was called in by a Rutgers official and told that since his letter reflected a viewpoint, that viewpoint should conform more closely to that of the college administration...
...WQXR has a potential listening audience three times that of WBMS, and in addition is partially subsidized by the New York Times. Taking its condition into account, however, WBMS could still make some improvement. A sizable portion of "The World's Most Beautiful Music" is short enough to conform to the dictates of radio business policy. Not many Mozart or Haydn symphonies, for example, are over 20 minutes in length. High standards need not be prostituted to economics...
Under a new set-up in the Chemistry Department, the lab work for Chemistry 20 has been cut down, and the Department intends to have all lab hours conform to those stated in the catalogue. A new course, introduction to Research, has been added for senior honors students who can take it with special permission, Chemistry 3, a former half course, has been merged with a full course, Chemistry 40, to produce two half course, Chemistry 40a, Gravimetric and Volumetric Analysis, and Chemistry 40b, Systematic Analysis...
...short stories, $30,000 to $40,000 for serials), Marquand's name was synonymous with surefire slick writing. In those days, says Marquand, "I was a simple little boy in the lower echelons, naive about literature and the world in general, just a good boy trying to conform. I thought John Dos Passos was a terrible yellow belly for griping about the war." But at the time, he thought he had the world by the tail. He went to Europe in 1921 ("I was Lord Byron on a triumphal tour. God, it was wonderful!"), and in Rome became engaged...