Word: conformed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rumors that the Administration was seriously considering the recognition of the Soviets have been killed by the recent statements of Secretary Hughes who has set forth our stand in a determined and logical manner. International law demands, in brief, that a government must pay its debts, protect foreigners, and conform to civilized customs in general; and it is with these facts in mind that Mr. Hughes outlines in clear terms what Lenine must accomplish to gain recognition from the United States...
...broad powers. Provision for this is made in the first amendment suggested, which "states that the President shall have authority "to modify tariff rates either upward or downward, within prescribed limits and in accordance with definite rules laid down by Congress, so that the rates may at all times conform to existing conditions". The other provisions are of secondary importance; the first allows for American or foreign valuation, according to the reliability of the foreign rating; the second, for additional duties to counteract unfair competition; and the third, for duties to prevent discrimination against our over-seas commerce...
...come to grief. Condemnation at the hands of all mankind is what made Germany sick at heart; it is what will bring France to terms; and it will have its influence on Japan. Universal censure is sufficient to quell the proudest nation, and Japan will soon vacate Siberia and conform to world opinion...
...startling thesis. truly. Yet Miss Glaspell wisely refrains from urging it to an extreme. She is satisfied with pointing out the justice of her case, admitting frankly that our present social and educational conditions cannot be stretched overnight to conform to all this. The conscientious objector, the "radical" professor--these our hard-headed, "sot-in-its-ways" democracy cannot at once accept into its colleges. There must be time for growth and advancement; but meanwhile it does no harm to learn our meanwhile it does no harm to learn our faults. After all, it is the old story of revolution...
...years, especially since the presidency of Charles W. Elliot, who inaugurated voluntary chapel and the now widely copied elective system, Harvard has stood for individualism among the students. It makes no attempt to establish an invariable type, either intellectual, religious, or social, to which all must conform or be rejected. Strong and hard to combat are the influences which shame individuality, in matters of thought, dress or manner. Freshman regulations tend to destroy it as well as the prevalent habit of scoffing at anything new or different. No real need of such regulations exists: in the past have not Harvard...