Word: conformance
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...Tribune, but Genevieve's switched over to the rival Chicago Daily News where it topped a new women's page column called "In Capitol Letters." The Administration-baiting Tribune said the change was due to disagreement over policy, with the implication that Mrs. Herrick would not conform to the paper's hostile attitude toward the Roosevelts. She said she quit for sentimental reasons which only she would understand...
Weetamoe and Yankee, both contenders for defending the Cup in 1930, were remodelled to conform to this year's rules. Yankee, a heavy weather boat which holds the record for the 30-mile Cup course, had her bow sharpened to make her faster in light airs. Frank Paine, her designer, raised the money by subscription in Boston. Weetamoe had her keel weights deepened and moved forward to make her more seaworthy. The New York syndicate which owns Whirlwind, slowest of 1930's four contenders, did not recondition her this year. vanitie, under this year's rules...
...vegetable gardens when he gets back to his father's farm. Those who popped their heads into the Assistant Secretary's office just before he left for his Senatorial inquisition, found Dr. Tugwell having his white doeskin shoes cleaned and whitened. His necktie, shirt and socks always conform to a careful color scheme, and in passing a mirror he is apt, perhaps unconsciously, to give himself a glance. At 42 he is a handsome figure of a man. Besides being a connoisseur of dress, he is also an amateur of wines. Otherwise he leads the life...
...Politicians, Teachers, and Schoolbooks" are surveyed with a practised eye by P. A. Knowlton, the editor of the Educational department of the MacMillan Company. Citing the havoc which politicians, the public, and teachers themselves wreak upon schoolbooks by false economy and attempts to make texts conform to local or professional prejudices, Mr. Knowiton suggests very convincingly the need for a reform of his evil which has been a part of free education since its inception...
...nosed Southerner, representative of the Alabama coal operators, came and delivered an ultimatum to NRA. Said he: "The hours and wages amendments to the bituminous code combine the law of the jungle with the worst features of a military despotism. . . . The Alabama coal operators are definitely determined not to conform to any further