Word: conformationally
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...tough question of the atomic architecture inside the molecule has yielded somewhat to the discovery that it must conform to mathematical limitations grouped under "stoichiometrical law." Stanley's tobacco mosaic virus, for example, was found to be not a long, thin chain but roughly egg-shaped...
...finely corrugated paper, ruled so that it can be torn in narrow horizontal strips and cemented to a backing sheet. The typist writes on the corrugated side and, when finished, takes a pair of tweezers, lifts the strips loose, stretches them so that the lines typewritten on them conform to a standard length, presses them back in place on the cemented backing. The typing shows practically no distortion as a result of stretching, unless the strips are pulled to extremes...
...flee. Today there are many--many at least in appearances; one devil at the bottom of them all, perhaps, if your theology inclines you so to state the case of man's ever-recurring ills. Each worlds has its own formulas, its own incantations, its own tests of conformity, its own methods of excommunication. In some lands the more independent spirits are physically coerced if the social forces are not sufficiently powerful to keep the waiverer in line. In these countries where the improved modern methods of appealing to the mob coupled with the actual use of force have been...
...valid way for an individual to relieve his sense of frustration. There was nothing to do but about and boat the air like the frenzied rooter at a football game nothing to do but join the chorus of that particular world which was your own. And not to conform to one world or another during that period was to incur a potent blast of hostil criticism from every side...
...insight." Is not this equally true in all the countless affairs of life where judgments must be made? And unless a man can make a satisfying pattern of his own individual judgments he is under a great temptation to accept some one else's pattern; in other words to conform...