Word: conformed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Politicians, Teachers, and Schoolbooks" are surveyed with a practised eye by P. A. Knowlton, the editor of the Educational department of the MacMillan Company. Citing the havoc which politicians, the public, and teachers themselves wreak upon schoolbooks by false economy and attempts to make texts conform to local or professional prejudices, Mr. Knowiton suggests very convincingly the need for a reform of his evil which has been a part of free education since its inception...
...wide drooping mouth, a Vassar graduate and a divorcée. From 1914 to 1917 she was Dr. Wirt's assistant when he was reorganizing New York City's schools. Now she is a school building expert in the Office of Education. The other two women conform, like Miss Barrows, to a familiar Washington type: bright, obscure incumbents of small Government jobs, unmarried, unbeauteous as a rule, and with fairly elemental ideas about politics. Mary Taylor is editor of the AAA's Consumers' Guide. Hildegarde Kneeland has served for ten years as a minor official...
...nosed Southerner, representative of the Alabama coal operators, came and delivered an ultimatum to NRA. Said he: "The hours and wages amendments to the bituminous code combine the law of the jungle with the worst features of a military despotism. . . . The Alabama coal operators are definitely determined not to conform to any further
...attempt to disrupt our meeting was carried out with the connivance of University authorities. A rival meeting, unauthorized by the Regent, was given full freedom by the Yard police. Harvard's name was blackened by students in Nazi uniform, shouting for war. The University demands that radical clubs conform to all rules, but turns the other way when its embryonic Fascists violate regulations. The Austrian government which gave the Heimwehr free rein, the German government which took no step against the Hitlerites, practised an analogous "democratic" policy...
...There isn't a fact of life which can be shown on the screen. In certain shows you can't even mention the fact that a woman is going to have a baby. The reason why pictures are unintelligible even to minors is that they are not made to conform with any standard of morality but with a synthetic code made up by committees of bigoted people...