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Word: conformed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conform more closely to the club system the Governing Board of the Union has extended the team of membership to the entire college course. Hereafter it will not be necessary to reenroll every fall as a membership will automatically be extended unless the member resigns. All resignations must be in the hands of the Graduate Manager by October 10 of the year the resignation is to take effect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNION MEMBERSHIP EXTENDED TO ENTIRE COLLEGE COURSE | 5/31/1923 | See Source »

...instead of 9; lunch at 11:30 instead of 12; start his afternoon's work at 2:30 instead of 3; dine at 7:30 and not at 8; and go to bed half an hour before his accustomed time. Moreover all public services will conform to the order. So, while the clocks of France tick off the seconds in accordance with solar time, daylight saving will be effective but not apparent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Daylight Saving | 4/7/1923 | See Source »

...conformist; all the decadent wits of the time rail at "pure Emmanuel". It held itself aloof from the rest of the University, and kept its own council and habits. When the other colleges accepted the inevitable and worshipped according to the king's command. Emmanuel alone refused to conform and probably because of the respect for Chaderton, was not severely penalized...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EMMANUEL AND HARVARD | 3/29/1923 | See Source »

...fundamental change in the modern industrial world is concerned," says Mr. Gompers, " the wage-earners need not look for reconstruction or reconstitution through the establishment of labor banks and particularly through the establishment of labor banks under existing laws. Labor banks must conform to banking laws and these laws themselves constitute an insuperable bar to any but the most modest and limited reforms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Impotent Banks | 3/17/1923 | See Source »

...have modified the Constitution to conform to this change in attitude. The 13th Amendment (anti-slavery), 14th (United States citizenship), 15th (Negro suffrage), 16th (Federal Income Tax), 17th (Manner of Electing Senators), 18th (Prohibition), and 19th (Woman Suffrage), have all had the purpose of unifying "this United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Abolishing Reno | 3/3/1923 | See Source »

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