Word: conformation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still nurse hopes that your writers' editorializing may have been a traffic inaccurate. Could it be that there are (despite the article) a happy few that are not the vocational automatons you describe? Could it be that some forsake the ways of the Pharisees and do not seek to conform to whatever this "Yale Man" is that you mention (and of which no one I know has heard) I Could it be that your writers operated from a Socratic basket in mid-air, trying to make the worse appear the better analysis...
Presently enrolled students will have to conform to the new system, but with modifications outlined by a committee now studying the problem. Some men will be excused altogether on submitting petitions...
...small room, the picture taking an entire wall. Thus the picture will make the room, and I could not share the opinion according to which the composition of a mural should rather go and conform with the architectural elements-- emphasis on horizontal-vertical directions and flat color areas. I want the convolution-like movement rather to be an opposite to it, to "open up" the wall, to extend the three dimensional enclosure, to break the wall...
Hollywood was having a little trouble with Oliver Wendell Holmes. Incredible as it might seem, the life story of the late great Justice did not always conform to the censor's standard. Polishing up The Magnificent Yankee last week, Producer Armand (Ambush) Deutsch admitted that he had left out some of the great man's saltier habits "to avoid sidetracking our main story." Among the discreet omissions: the Chief Justice's regular excursions to Washington's burlesque houses, his well-thumbed library of spicy stories, his ear-curling, off-the-bench vocabulary. Also missing, from...
...joined A. & P. at the age of 22 as a part-time clerk. He became secretary in 1925, lives in suburban New Rochelle, N.Y. Like other top A. & P. executives, he was picked by the Hartford brothers, John, 77, and George, 86, who still run the giant chain, also conform to the stern tradition of anonymity. John has six lines in Who's Who in America, George has three...