Word: conformance
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Buick has rounded off its rear end to conform with aerodynamic principles but its design has not been radically altered. ''Knee-action" wheels, automatic choke and power brakes make for 1934 comfort. Oldsmobile this year added a low-priced six to go with its regular line of eights. More thoroughly streamlined than last year, Oldsmobile has all of GM's contributions to easier riding and driving...
...pageant, in a humorous vein, de picts the efforts of Hitler and seven of his Brownshirts to cope with Harvard Indifference and with the Liberal Club in trying to force the University to conform with the Nazi policies...
...education policies. Particularly involved is the question of medicine. Last year the University of Chicago hospitals and clinics lost $831,000. Under the merger, Chicago would turn over its practical work to the Presbyterian Hospital and, taking over Northwestern's ablest men, would concentrate on research. This would conform to the Rockefeller notion of emphasis on research...
...resplendent garb and martial array, and the rival Harvard band will likewise march and will likewise suffer from the comparison, especially from the aspect of precision and novelty of performance. Admitting that the U. S. Military Academy would be a rather lofty standard to which the Harvard band should conform, still the performances of last week and the week before have only clinched the impression that an evolution is in order. Regardless of musical excellence, gold braid and epaulets with really snappy formations create an atmosphere that the sailor cap, sweater, and black tie somehow fail to achieve...
...policy, there will be criticism of what he refers to as a managed currency and issue will be taken with him as to whether it is sound ever to try to fix the value of the dollar by changing its gold content every now and then to conform to price changes. This theory, which is sponsored by Professor Irving Fisher of Yale, is not new and has had the penetrating criticism of economists and gold experts for a decade...