Word: conformed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lack of attention given to the proposal of Congressman Tinkham of Massachusetts that the quotas of the several states in the House of Representatives should be revised so as to conform to the Fourteenth Amendment, looks suspiciously like an attempt to dodge an issue. President Harding and his party's leaders in Congress are not anxious to hamper the growth of their political influence in the South by any obnoxious investigation of the negro disenfranchisement, prevalent in many states below the Mason-Dixon line. The South has always been extremely sensitive on this point and it is indeed expedient...
Numerous amendments to the constitution and by-laws of the organization were adopted, many being merely technical changes to conform with recent developments in athletics. The javelin and discus throws were added to the annual games program but will not take effect until the 1922 meeting. The proposal to add a five-mile run and the 440-yard hurdle race will be considered at the next annual meeting...
Essays and translations must be handed in to the Secretary of the Committee on Bowdoin Prizes, 20 University Hall, not later than April 1, 1921, and must conform to the requirements and general rules printed in the University descriptive catalogue...
...detailed to the school, regular army officers, preferably former graduates of the Special Service Schools as instructors in infantry, cavalry, field artillery, engineering, signal corps, etc., it being the intention that those officers so detailed shall be particularly competent to develop and organize the courses of instruction to conform to the methods pursued at the above mentioned Service Schools...
...forced upon the State of Oklahoma by the warfare of the brewers themselves, proved to be exceedingly efficient and the idea has been adopted in nearly every state enforcement act since that time. One after another the state dry laws, permitting the two per cent privilege, were modified to conform to the one-half of one per cent limit. The brewers themselves by their systematic attempt to destroy the prohibition laws only succeeded in destroying their two per cent privilege. Threshed out in actual experience covering a period of nearly twenty years, the two per cent limit was such...